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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So, after discussion on irc with seb128 and tedg is seems this is
basically:

- indicator-sound in the user's session will export currently playing song information using accountsservice
- indicator-sound in the greeter will display it, and will allow controlling it via the "session broadcast service" (http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~indicator-applet-developers/unity-greeter-session-broadcast/trunk.14.04/view/head:/README)
- indicator-sound in the user's session will respond to events from the greeter

This exposes user data to the greeter, mainly song titles. Since it is
assumed that the song titles that are displayed are only what is
currently playing, the amount of information that is being leaked is
minimal.

I agree to having this information be available to the greeter if the
following conditions are met:

1- if the song is no longer _currently_ playing, indicator-sound in the user session needs to clear-out the song information from accounts service
2- The user needs to have a privacy control available that will allow them to turn off song information being sent to accounts service, and turn off indicator-sound from responding to greeter events (this can either be exposed or not in the gui as the design team prefers, as long as a setting _is_ available)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1293677

Title:
  FFE: Export data to accounts service

Status in “indicator-sound” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  To support having a user control of the media player and volume on the
  greeter data needs to be exported by the sound indicator into the
  accounts service so that it can be read by the greeter user. This will
  then be used on the greeter to show the relevant data to the user when
  that user is selected on the greeter.

  A user on the Unity7 desktop today will not see the media players in
  the greeter. They will notice that volume/mute changes that they make
  while using the greeter will effect their session.

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