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malcontent: Add new plugin for restricting access to apps

Philip Withnall requested to merge pwithnall/gnome-software:parental-controls into master

This is a new plugin which loads the user’s parental controls settings (comprising a maximum OARS rating for apps to show, and a blacklist of apps to not allow launching) and use them to filter which apps are shown.

The OARS rating filters non-installed apps so the user can only install apps which are age-appropriate for them. The blacklist filters installed apps so that the user cannot run inappropriate apps installed for other users.

These are implemented using the parental controls quirks. The UI already pays attention to these quirks, and hides various buttons.

This adds an optional dependency on libmalcontent (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pwithnall/malcontent).

It is part of a wider approach to implementing parental controls, which includes filtering in the flatpak command, in gnome-shell and in the control center.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall withnall@endlessm.com

Edited by Philip Withnall

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