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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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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" id="software-installation">
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<info>
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<link type="guide" xref="index#controls"/>
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<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
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<desc>Restricting the software a child user can install, or preventing them installing additional software entirely.</desc>
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</info>
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<title>Restricting Software Installation</title>
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<p>You can prevent a user from installing additional software on the system.
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They will still be able to search for new software to install, but will need
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an administrator to authorize the installation when they try to install an
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application. This applies whether they are trying to install the application
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system-wide (for all users) or just for themselves.</p>
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<p>Additionally, you can restrict which software a user can browse or search
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for in the <app>Software</app> catalog by age categories.</p>
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<p>To prevent a user from running an application which has already been
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installed, see <link xref="restricting-applications"/>.</p>
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<section id="installation">
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<title>Preventing Software Installation</title>
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<p>To prevent a user from installing additional software:</p>
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<steps>
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<item><p>Open the <app>Parental Controls</app> application.</p></item>
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<item><p>Select the user in the tabs at the top.</p></item>
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<item><p>Enable the <gui style="checkbox">Restrict Application Installation</gui> checkbox.</p></item>
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</steps>
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</section>
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<section id="oars">
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<title>Restricting Software Installation by Age</title>
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<p>Applications in the <app>Software</app> catalog have information about
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content they contain which might be inappropriate for some ages — for
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example, various forms of violence, unmoderated chat with other people on
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the internet, or the possibility of spending money.</p>
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<p>For each application, this information is summarized as the minimum age
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child it is typically suitable to be used by — for example, “suitable for
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ages 7+”. These age ratings are presented in region-specific schemes which
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can be compared with the ratings schemes used for films and games.</p>
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<p>The applications shown to a user in the <app>Software</app> catalog can
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be filtered by their age suitability. Applications which are not suitable
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for the user will be hidden, and will not be installable by that user.
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They will be installable by other users (if their age suitability is set
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high enough).</p>
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<p>To filter the applications seen by a user in the <app>Software</app>
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catalog to only those suitable for a certain age:</p>
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<steps>
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<item><p>Open the <app>Parental Controls</app> application.</p></item>
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<item><p>Select the user in the tabs at the top.</p></item>
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<item><p>In the <gui>Application Suitability</gui> list, select the age which applications should be suitable for.</p></item>
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</steps>
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<note style="important">
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<p>The user’s actual age is not stored, so the <gui>Application Suitability</gui>
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is not automatically updated over time as the child grows older. You
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must periodically re-assess the appropriate <gui>Application Suitability</gui>
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for each user.</p>
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</note>
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</section>
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</page>
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