String freeze break for gnome-software for 41.0
- From: Philip Withnall <philip tecnocode co uk>
- To: gnome-i18n <gnome-i18n gnome org>
- Subject: String freeze break for gnome-software for 41.0
- Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:48:04 +0100
Hi all,
Can we have a string freeze break for gnome-software to add four new
strings to improve the user experience for non-sandboxed apps (i.e. all
RPMs and DEBs). Without this change, non-sandboxed apps will be
presented as ‘Potentially Unsafe’ with ‘unknown permissions’ which is
not particularly helpful to users for working out what to trust, or
why. On distributions which don’t have flatpak/snap set up, this will
be all apps in gnome-software.
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/merge_requests/987
None of the existing strings are appropriate. The new strings are quite
short:
Packaged by your distribution
Packaged by a third party
Check that you trust the vendor, as the application isn’t sandboxed
Application isn’t sandboxed but the distribution has checked that it is
not malicious
The exact wording of these may change before the merge request is
approved; it’s currently undergoing review.
Accompanying issue:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-software/-/issues/1450
Philip
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