Bug 148457

Summary:	Privacy settings not always cleared.
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component:	kcmprivacy	Assignee:	Ralf Hoelzer <ralf>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	bugs-kde
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Maciej Pilichowski 2007-08-02 18:49:56 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)

Description says "clear...", since no data is really cleared I assume that "clear..." means "keep". Please, fix this -- change the words, or change the checkboxes.

And while talking about the labeling, please change "clean up" to "clear all data" -- to use the same verb and make it clear it is about to clear all data, not only selected (right?).

Comment 1 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-08-02 23:11:43 UTC

I don't see the problem. The description tells the effect when you have toggled the option. Which means: clear it if option foo is enabled.

Comment 2 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-08-03 08:03:54 UTC

I can see only one problem -- if "clear" really means "clear", that it does not work at all. It does not clear anything, so it is a bug in execution, not naming. Reopening.

Comment 3 Maciej Pilichowski 2007-08-03 08:24:16 UTC

PS. To be sure I am catching the idea of the Privacy feature -- is it automatic or manual? I assumed it is both.

Comment 4 Bram Schoenmakers 2007-08-04 13:52:02 UTC

OK, there seems to be some bug in execution. Often it works like it describes, sometimes it does not (tested with Konqueror History).

Comment 5 bugs-kde 2008-04-21 15:59:54 UTC

Confirming.

See also this bug filed for Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/215030

May it be related to Konqueror instances that are kept in memory? I've noticed that if I delete ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/konq_history and ~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/faviconrc during my KDE session, and then log out, those files are recreated with the previous content. The only explanation I can think of is  that the in-memory Konqueror instance preserves that information and flushes it to disk when it exists (which occurs at the end of the KDE session).

Comment 6 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:05:08 UTC

Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug. Kcontrol has been replaced by System Settings in Plasma. Please give the latest version of that a try, and open a new bug in "systemsettings" if you continue to have an issue. Thank you!