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privacy-settings-menu

Privacy Quick Settings GNOME Extension

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  • Add privacy quick settings to the system menu for quick access to privacy settings in GNOME
  • Supports GNOME 3.38+, earlier versions are untested
  • Get the extension from here
  • This project is licensed under GPL 3.0
  • Any donations are greatly appreciated :)

Why are apps ignoring my settings?

  • Due to limitations in GNOME shell, only sandboxed (flatpak / snap) apps can be forced to respect privacy settings
  • As long as the settings changed by the extension match the settings inside GNOME Settings (privacy section), the extension is behaving correctly

Install the extension from releases:

  • Extract the zip to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell-extensions/PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst/
  • Reload GNOME: ALT+F2, r, ENTER
  • Enable the extension: gnome-extensions enable PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst

Install the extension from source:

  • Make sure the install dependencies are installed
  • make build
  • make install
  • Reload GNOME: ALT+F2, r, ENTER
  • Enable the extension: gnome-extensions enable PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst

Build system usage:

  • Common targets: Regular build system targets to build, install and uninstall

    • make build: Creates extension zip
    • make check: Runs checks on built extension zip
    • make install: Installs the extension
    • make uninstall: Uninstalls the extension

  • Development targets: These targets are aimed at developers and translators

    • make clean: Deletes extension zip
    • make translations: Updates translations
    • make gtk4: Simplifies and converts UI files (Should be run after any changes to files in ui/)
    • make compress: Losslessly compresses any .pngs in docs/
    • make release: Updates the UI, translations and icons, then creates and checks an extension zip

Install dependencies:

  • gettext
  • gnome-extensions
  • libglib2.0-bin

Build dependencies: (Only required if running make release)

  • All install dependencies
  • sed (make translations)
  • libgtk-3-bin (make gtk4)
  • libgtk-4-bin (make gtk4)
  • optipng (make compress)

Want to help?

  • Help with the project is always appreciated, refer to docs/CONTRIBUTING.md to get started
  • Documentation, code, translations and UI improvements are all welcome!

Bug reporting / debugging:

  • A live feed of GNOME's logs can be accessed with journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f -o cat
  • If the extension is crashing, an output from this is very helpful for fixing it

Credits:

  • scripts/update-po.sh and scripts/update-pot.sh were derived from Fly-Pie, originally licensed under the MIT license

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