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malcontent-control: Drop ‘Restrict Application Installation for Others’

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This simplifies the UI, as nobody really understood the difference
between ‘Restrict Application Installation’ and ‘Restrict Application
Installation for Others’. Now there’s just a ‘Restrict Application
Installation’ checkbox, which controls application installation in the
home and system flatpak repos.

The underlying app-filter representation in libmalcontent still supports
restricting installation to them separately, but the UI will always set
them to the same value.

There is a suggestion that we may want to support user repos again in
future iff the user has added a remote to their user repo. However,
figuring that out for other users (which is what the admin would have to
do when setting this all up) starts to get tricky with permissions for
reading other users’ home directories. Skip that for the moment — we can
reconsider adding that option in future if someone argues a case for it.

Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>

Fixes: #30
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Philip Withnall 2020-11-15 17:31:21 +00:00
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help/C/software-installation.page
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@ -8,10 +8,11 @@
<title>Restricting Software Installation</title>
<p>You can prevent a user from installing additional software, either for the
entire system, or just for themselves. They will still be able to search for
new software to install, but will need an administrator to authorize the
installation when they try to install an application.</p>
<p>You can prevent a user from installing additional software on the system.
They will still be able to search for new software to install, but will need
an administrator to authorize the installation when they try to install an
application. This applies whether they are trying to install the application
system-wide (for all users) or just for themselves.</p>
<p>Additionally, you can restrict which software a user can browse or search
for in the <app>Software</app> catalog by age categories.</p>
@ -27,18 +28,7 @@
<item><p>Open the <app>Parental Controls</app> application.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the user in the tabs at the top.</p></item>
<item><p>Enable the <gui style="checkbox">Restrict Application Installation</gui> checkbox.</p></item>
<item><p>Or enable the <gui style="checkbox">Restrict Application Installation for Others</gui> checkbox.</p></item>
</steps>
<p>The <gui style="checkbox">Restrict Application Installation for Others</gui>
checkbox allows the user to install additional software for themselves, but
prevents that software from being made available to other users. It could be
used, for example, if there were two child users, one of whom is mature
enough to be allowed to install additional software, but the other isn’t —
enabling <gui style="checkbox">Restrict Application Installation for Others</gui>
would prevent the more mature child from installing applications which are
inappropriate for the other child and making them available to the other
child.</p>
</section>
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