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) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of DX Packages, which is subscribed to indicator-sound in Ubuntu. Matching subscriptions: dx-packages 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/indicator-sound/+bug/1293677/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dx-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
