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privacy: Mention that system apps can always use the camera/microphone

Philip Withnall requested to merge pwithnall/gnome-control-center:741-privacy-system-apps into main

These toggles only apply to the portal system, so only restrict access for sandboxed apps. System apps (installed without sandboxing into /usr/bin) can always access these resources on typical distributions.

In future, perhaps integration with a MAC (like SELinux) could restrict access to the camera/microphone/GPS for system applications — but we invented sandboxing to avoid having to do that, so it seems unlikely that’s ever going to be implemented. If it is, this wording can change again.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall pwithnall@endlessos.org

Fixes: #741 (closed)

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