I looked at activity-log-manager briefly (it provides Unity's Privacy Settings panel). It calls out via dbus to the whoopsie-preferences service which reads and writes two keys (report_crashes and report_metrics) to the /etc/whoopsie conf file. If report_crashes is set, it creates (the blank) /var/lib/apport/autoreport. apport uses the existence of that file to decide whether to send reports
I looked around but couldn't find anywhere that actually uses the metrics setting. GNOME's privacy schema also has a org.gnome.desktop.privacy send- software-usage-stats key with the description "Send statistics when applications are removed or installed." I think the key itself may be fine but I think we'd need to tweak the description. My impression is that whoopsie-preferences is unnecessary. It's also difficult for me to understand what apport, update-notifier and whoopsie are all doing. I think the checkbox in activity-log-manager only controls the automated background error message reporting and not the popups telling you something crashed and would you like to report a bug which I think users find a lot more annoying. For instance, see https://askubuntu.com/questions/93457/how-do-i-enable-or-disable-apport Maybe the correct way currently to disable those popups is the gsettings boolean key com.ubuntu.update-notifier show-apport-crashes -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to whoopsie-preferences in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1614820 Title: Respect gsettings org.gnome.desktop.privacy report-technical-problems Status in Ubuntu GNOME: New Status in Whoopsie: New Status in apport package in Ubuntu: New Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu: New Status in whoopsie-preferences package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.16+ includes this boolean key: org.gnome.desktop.privacy report-technical-problems This key is used in GNOME's Settings app and Initial Setup tool. It would be great if Ubuntu would be able to integrate with that. See also -------- https://git.gnome.org/browse/gsettings-desktop-schemas/tree/schemas/org.gnome.desktop.privacy.gschema.xml.in#n50 https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/tree/panels/privacy /cc-privacy-panel.c https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-initial-setup/tree/gnome-initial- setup/pages/privacy/gis-privacy-page.c Ubuntu Bug 1614818 requests that the GNOME apps support apport but I think this bug may be the more correct way to do it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1614820/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
