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[James Hunt <1369457@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah thanks - didn't know about those options! Disabled both now :-)

> The use case for launching apps from the lockscreen is that as a user, you think "oh I want to go to facebook",
> click facebook, we start the app in the background so that once you enter your passcode, it's sitting there ready.
> Again, Design and Security have already talked about this feature and were planning to leave it as is.
> Please let's not have a title-editing fight over this.

The fact that I raised this bug demonstrates that I was not aware of
these discussions. Personally, I cannot see a huge benefit in allowing
this behaviour. Maybe if a particular app is very slow to start and/or
if a user has a particularly long pass-phrase this could be marginally
useful?

But to counter that, what if you have an app that sucks down huge
amounts of data on startup and a nefarious user starts the app without
your knowledge when you happen to put your phone down for a minute? That
would be more than a little annoying if 3G charges applied. It could be
argued that the risk of that scenario playing out is small, but
nevertheless the potential is there.

> The use case for re-ordering apps is *likely to be* (Design hasn't actually chimed in) that the person doing the
> re-ordering is overwhelmingly likely to be the owner, rather than some malicious attacker that just loves to re-order
> your icons.
Again, I personally don't see that feature as particularly compelling, hence I've turned it off :)

If these features are perceived as generally useful are we planning on
introducing them to desktop Ubuntu?

Regardless of whether we decide to leave these features as enabled or
not, maybe we should ensure they form part of the initial setup wizard?

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Title:
  Can re-order and un-pin launcher items and launch apps while phone is
  locked

Status in Ubuntu UX bugs:
  New
Status in “unity8” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  This is atleast a privacy issue but could also be a security depending
  on exactly what apps the user has pinned to their launcher.

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