Privacy Quick Settings GNOME Extension

• Add privacy quick settings to the system menu for quick access to privacy settings in GNOME
• Supports GNOME 3.38+, earlier versions are untested
• Get the extension from here
• This project is licensed under GPL 3.0
• Any donations are greatly appreciated :)

Why are apps ignoring my settings?

• Due to limitations in GNOME shell, only sandboxed (flatpak / snap) apps can be forced to respect privacy settings
• As long as the settings changed by the extension match the settings inside GNOME Settings (privacy section), the extension is behaving correctly

Install the extension from releases:

• Extract the zip to ~/.local/share/gnome-shell-extensions/PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst/
  • Alternatively: gnome-extensions install "PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst.shell-extension.zip" --force
• Reload GNOME: ALT+F2, r, ENTER
• Enable the extension: gnome-extensions enable PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst

Install the extension from source:

• Make sure the install dependencies are installed
• make build
• make install
• Reload GNOME: ALT+F2, r, ENTER
• Enable the extension: gnome-extensions enable PrivacyMenu@stuarthayhurst

Build system usage:

• Common targets: Regular build system targets to build, install and uninstall

  • make build: Creates extension zip
  • make check: Runs checks on built extension zip
  • make install: Installs the extension
  • make uninstall: Uninstalls the extension

• Development targets: These targets are aimed at developers and translators

  • make clean: Deletes extension zip
  • make translations: Updates translations
  • make gtk4: Simplifies and converts UI files (Should be run after any changes to files in ui/)
  • make compress: Losslessly compresses any .pngs in docs/
  • make release: Updates the UI, translations and icons, then creates and checks an extension zip

Install dependencies:

• gettext
• gnome-extensions
• libglib2.0-bin

Build dependencies: (Only required if running make release)

• All install dependencies
• sed (make translations)
• libgtk-3-bin (make gtk4)
• libgtk-4-bin (make gtk4)
• optipng (make compress)

Want to help?

• Help with the project is always appreciated, refer to docs/CONTRIBUTING.md to get started
• Documentation, code, translations and UI improvements are all welcome!

Bug reporting / debugging:

• A live feed of GNOME's logs can be accessed with journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f -o cat
• If the extension is crashing, an output from this is very helpful for fixing it

Credits:

• scripts/update-po.sh and scripts/update-pot.sh were derived from Fly-Pie, originally licensed under the MIT license

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