Unable to manage apps permissions

[alculete]

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[d-loose]

As far as I'm aware we're not currently planning to manage app permissions in the app-center but rather keep that in gnome-control-center. Please correct me if I'm wrong @local-optimum @tim-hm .

[local-optimum]

That is correct so that we have a single source of truth for permissions, however we want to investigate being able to open the relevant app page in gnome-control-center from a link in the App Center relevant page, this might be difficult due to snap security permissions themselves

[tim-hm]

Yes that was the plan we discussed ... at some point in the past 😂 I'm not sure what work is required to trigger Settings to open on the correct page though.

@kenvandine do you have any insights to how much/little work is required to support this?

[kenvandine]

Opening control center on the app security panel should be straight forward but not sure if it supports going straight to a specific app settings. That would require some testing

[d-loose]

Opening control center on the app security panel should be straight forward but not sure if it supports going straight to a specific app settings. That would require some testing

gnome-control-center applications <desktop-id> does the right thing - how do I run this from the confined snap environment, though?

[kenvandine]

Opening control center on the app security panel should be straight forward but not sure if it supports going straight to a specific app settings. That would require some testing

gnome-control-center applications <desktop-id> does the right thing - how do I run this from the confined snap environment, though?

You could do this via the desktop-launch interface, but it would require an outstanding PR to be merged.
snapcore/snapd#13135

[anasereijo]

Is it possible to prioritise this? on the app center side could look like this:

[anasereijo]

@BLKKKBVSIK FYI

[Recydywa]

So snaps are now a Gnome thing.

Gnome Control Center is naturally a Gnome app which doesn't work in any other DE or window manager.

I just tried running it under Unity in 22.04 LTS and it didn't start.

Running gnome-control-center is only supported under GNOME and Unity, exiting