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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I sympathize with Iain's viewpoint, and I look forward to seeing whether
<https://fixubuntu.com/> is updated to cover Ubuntu Touch. However, the
breadth of the Dash in Ubuntu Touch makes a global Dash setting
infeasible. If it existed and was set to local searches only, the Ubuntu
Store, News, Today, and NearBy [sic] scopes would not work at all, and
the Videos scope would usually be a wasteland. If those were standalone
apps, as their equivalents are on other mobile platforms, then a Dash
privacy setting would become feasible.

Anyway, this does not require any design work: for the reason I just
described, I removed the "Dash search" setting from the design in April
2014.
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityAndPrivacySettings?action=diff&rev2=39&rev1=38>

(It's nice to be wanted, but the design specification is the #1 result
in a Google search for "Ubuntu Security Privacy settings". If anyone has
ideas for how to make it even easier for people to check the spec,
before saying things like "Worth checking with mpt" or "this needs some
sort of review by design", please let me know.)

** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Triaged

** Changed in: ubuntu-system-settings (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) => (unassigned)

** No longer affects: ubuntu-ux

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1422700

Title:
  'Dash search' option makes no sense, and may be obsolete

Status in the base for Ubuntu mobile products:
  New
Status in ubuntu-system-settings package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in unity-scopes-api package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in unity-scopes-shell package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  ubuntu-touch/stable/bq-aquaris #17

  In system settings | Security & Privacy, there is a setting 'Dash
  Search', with the options 'phone only' and 'phone and internet'.

  This used to releate to whether remote searches were included by the
  managed dash when it searched the whole phone. It no longer does this,
  so this setting may be obsolete.

  Flipping it to phone only did not prevent scopes from searching the
  internet.

  Should this setting still exist?

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