“Applications” settings: “Individual permissions for applications…” text is backward
gnome-control-center master, Ubuntu 19.04 beta
- Navigate to “Applications”.
- Select any app in the list.
What you see: Amidst the controls on the panel is the text, “Individual permissions for applications can be reviewed in the Privacy Settings.”.
What’s wrong: The simplest way of interpreting this is the opposite of what it actually means. The Privacy settings do not present individual permissions for applications; they present global permissions that (are intended to) cover all applications.
Alternatively, if “individual” is supposed to refer to the permissions rather than the applications, well, this panel you’re already on also presents individual permissions, so the text still wouldn’t be making a meaningful distinction.
What you should see: This would need some design exploration. Until #381 (closed) and similar are fixed, a short-term fix might be to replace this text with a button labelled “General Privacy Settings…” or similar, since that wouldn’t be making claims about how many apps those settings cover.
After #381 (closed) and similar are fixed, if the “Applications” and “Privacy” panels are still separate by then, the text would need to do the tricky job of explaining the relationship between them: something like “Features are unavailable here if the equivalent >Privacy setting< is turned off.”