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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/10/2013 09:30 AM, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-07-10 at 09:03 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>> Also things like: new version of app requires new permissions, one user
>> is fine with this but another isn't.
> 
> I think that permissions isn't an issue because we plan on asking when the
> feature is used, so the app wouldn't expose something until you clicked on it.
> 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AccountPrivileges#Why_did_we_take_this_approach.3F
> 

FYI, I'm not sure every permission will have a dialog-- I would think we will do
this only where it makes sense to avoid a degraded user experience. Eg, it makes
sense for content picking and contacts, likely geolocation, but maybe it doesn't
for networking.

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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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