>> I don't think it's appropriate to display that in the settings app.
> I suppose that not knowing is more secure? Yes if you consider the risk of users DoS'ing themselves by having to potentially hack around in the CLI / BIOS settings to try and find the right incantations to get a green check mark to appear. The status quo is a lack of awareness - so we need to trade of the risks of showing something which is unactionable and potentially alarming vs. keeping things as they are. Once there is support to rectify these issues from the GUI then I am not at all opposed to showing this information and would welcome it. However even then, we will want to ensure this is a robust process since we don't want to say make it easy to enable Secure Boot and then prevent machines from booting since the user doesn't actually run a signed kernel, or say end up having hardware devices silently disabled on a subsequent reboot since they were previously using unsigned modules etc. There is a lot of complexity and corner cases here so it is prudent to be conservative in our approach IMO. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1987162 Title: 43: New Device Security feature is confusing and unhelpful currently Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: GNOME 43 added a new Device Security feature in the Settings app. You can access it in gnome-control-center 1:43~beta-1ubuntu1 1. Open the Settings app 2. Click Privacy then Device Security The Security Events aren't clickable. A default Ubuntu install only gets us "Security Level 1". The highest level is "Security Level 3". There isn't anything an Ubuntu user can do to get to a higher security level from the Device Security screen. If a user attempts to get their system to a higher security level, I think they could break their system since this isn't something we currently support. Therefore, I think we ought to hide/disable the screen for Ubuntu 22.10. We can work towards better integrating this screen for Ubuntu in future releases. I'm attaching several screenshots although it's worth trying out the feature for yourself too. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1987162/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
