- The Radio's are replaced by CheckBoxes and some logic, so
that different tracking styles can be enabled independently.
None of the settings end up in the Config yet, though.
Following KDE Pholio M116, switch to using a radio button; instead
of 4 individually toggle-able settings, use a "level" indicator
to select none, install, machine, user .. each of which implies
the previous levels. Each level is individually enable-able from
the distro side.
Each kind of tracking has an associated webpage / URL describing
the policy for that tracking. The Calamares User Guide has some
generic information. When the user clicks on the Help (?) button
in a tracking-option block, go to that URL.
- Enable translations, substitute ShortProductName into string,
- Simplify code for enabling tracking option blocks,
- Set checkboxes based on configuration,
- Read checkboxes when leaving page,
- Don't stretch the tracking option blocks.
- add icons for graphical display of actions
- extend description of tracking options
- add debug logging
- enable next button
- show/hide tracking options based on configuration
This is experimental, off-by-default, code for developing a telemetry /
tracking configuration module. It is preliminary work for issue #628,
but also for KDE Neon configuration. Any telemetry should conform to
the KDE Telemetry Policy [1] or similar Free Software telemetry policy
(e.g. the Mozilla one).
[1] https://community.kde.org/Policies/Telemetry_Policy
Initial idea is to distinguish three kinds of tracking:
- installs. This tracks that OS <foo> has been installed somewhere.
It might send some machine information to a remote server.
- machines. This enables some kind of machine tracking in the
installed system, for instance it could enable popcon on
Debian, or periodic phone-home-pings.
- users. This enables some kind of telemetry / tracking on the
installed user in the system.
A simple and transparent setting is to enable install-tracking and set
it to opt-in, and disable machine and user tracking. Explain to the
user that <foo> would like to know when <foo> is installed, and that
the following information <d1>, <d2> will be sent to <url> in accordance
to the <foo> telemetry policy at <url2>.
Work in this branch is subject to VDG review for the visuals, and
privacy oversight by whatever group is responsible for <foo> privacy.
Note that this module makes it *possible* for telemetry configuration
to be visible inside the installer; what distro's do with telemetry
already is entirely outside the scope of this configuration module.
Adriaan de Groot