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Filter by permission in detail view #205

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NaabKing opened this issue Jul 11, 2013 · 9 comments
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Filter by permission in detail view #205

NaabKing opened this issue Jul 11, 2013 · 9 comments

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@NaabKing
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  1. I see that every app has all permissions written when you click on the app and those that app actually uses are marked with "adidas sign" (lets say that, cuz i dont know how to type the symbol), so why not simply get rid of that and show only permissions that app uses (has Android permissions for it)? I don't need to restrict "Contacts" for "Angry Birds" if the app doesnt even have the Android permission for it, so it's useless to show it there.

  1. There's a bug that happens let's say if you install 2 new apps from the Market, you will get the notification from xPrivacy and you click on the first one and then if you go to the second app, xPrivacy will actually still show the first app, so you need to close the app and open it again and search for the (second) app manually.
    There's another bug that happenens quite a lot, sometimes when i want to run xPrivacy, the app will actually show the last opened app that was opened in xPrivacy and then you need to click the "xPrivacy" on the top left corner of the screen, which should mean "Back", but the app closes itself and then you need to run it again to get to the app list.

If you don't understand what i typed here, please tell me and i will record a video showing the bug, cuz it's not hard to reproduce it.

  1. Give us an option please, that there would be no "notification" from xPrivacy when we install an app, or at least make it default that nothing is checked (cuz now everything is checked when you install an app and no app will actually work if everything is checked).

3a) There could be a "checkbox" that would check all/none permissions too, cuz now we have to click "Menu" and "All", which is OK, but impractical, a simple checkbox above all would do the trick.

Here's how it could look like:
http://s17.postimg.org/m8yhu7ifj/Screenshot_2013_07_11_13_29_04.png

@unclefab
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Answer to 1:
some apps don't need to have any android permission to leak private data, for example they can leak which cell tower you are on without using any permissions. And that's just one example, apps can do much more than that...

@M66B
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M66B commented Jul 12, 2013

Please create one issue for one problem.

@M66B
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M66B commented Jul 12, 2013

  1. Already asked before: it is not so hard to swipe it away
    3a) That would be at the price of valuable screen space

@NaabKing
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About "3", it's not hard to swipe it away, you are right, BUT by DEFAULT every permission is checked, meaning, if i just swipe the notification away, it's 90% likely the app wont start, so i can't just swipe it away, i need to go to the app, click "Menu", click "All" and then the bug happens which i described above in "2)", so at least give us an option that nothing is checked by default and then it won't be a problem to just swipe the notification away.

How can you say that about "3a", at the moment NOTHING is there, it's blank (and that part of the screen isn't "moving" eather), i'm pretty sure noone would mind a checkbox there, i haven't seen any other app that would do this the way you did it.

Do you still want me to do Issue for every problem? And what do you think about "1)", is it true what unclefab said? I should for example check "Location" permission in every app even if they don't have Android permission for it?

@M66B
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M66B commented Jul 12, 2013

  1. Everything is checked by default for new applications to prevent leaking privacy sensitive data from the beginning.

3a) I guess you mean in the notification: I cannot make this, since I don't have a device that supports this.

@M66B
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M66B commented Jul 12, 2013

"There's a bug that happens let's say if you install 2 new apps from the Market, you will get the notification from xPrivacy and you click on the first one and then if you go to the second app, xPrivacy will actually still show the first app, so you need to close the app and open it again and search for the (second) app manually.
There's another bug that happenens quite a lot, sometimes when i want to run xPrivacy, the app will actually show the last opened app that was opened in xPrivacy and then you need to click the "xPrivacy" on the top left corner of the screen, which should mean "Back", but the app closes itself and then you need to run it again to get to the app list."

Should be fixed in the next release.

@NaabKing
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and what about "1)"? Is it really like unclefab said?

@M66B
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M66B commented Jul 12, 2013

See the changed issue title.

@NaabKing
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ok, i'll wait for the new version then and see what's diffrent (=
Thanks

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