Created attachment 140940 [details] OpenSnitch showing kioslave5 trying to connect without the user's consent kioslave5 connects to location.services.mozilla.com without asking the user for permission. If I deny the connection, the latitude and longitude read 0, and if I allow it, the latitude and longitude match my location. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Run System Settings 2. Navigate to Display and Monitor 3. It starts connecting right away, but to confirm that it actually manages to connect, click on Night Color and check the latitude and longitude readings. OBSERVED RESULT kioslave5 connects to mozilla without the user's consent EXPECTED RESULT kioslave5 should not connect without explicitly asking the user for permission SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch Linux, KDE Plasma 5.22.4 (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.85.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2
Created attachment 140941 [details] kioslave5 trying to connect to mozilla without the user's consent
P.S. It doesn't retain the information (I don't know if it should, seeing as I don't use Night Color). So when I close System Settings, it asks to reconnect.
That's not kioslave at fault. It's akin to wget/curl for all intents and purposes here. As for nightshift doing that, the geolocation backend has multiple resolving paths. It's nothing technically surprising and is working as expected. But we should have some wording before activation.
Yeah I didn't know, sorry :D I was going off of what OpenSnitch told me. I mean, I think "grave" (the importance) might have been overkill seeing as it doesn't do this unless you click on the kcm (or actually use it I presume). Yeah, it's just that a little heads up would have been nice. Aside from the lock screen (media player?) connecting to Spotify, I haven't had Plasma phone home to anyone at all (I don't use Discover).
Also, the media player applet thing connecting to Spotify - that's to be expected imo and I don't think it's an issue.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419677 ***
(Re-opening since this is about to be fixed with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/1016)
Git commit bad72c931e95bfb325ece391e0ffc6e0153d9d51 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Bharadwaj Raju. Committed on 23/08/2021 at 18:07. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [kcms/nightcolor] Inform user when geolocating, and only do it when needed Related: bug 419677 FIXED-IN: 5.23 M +24 -11 kcms/nightcolor/package/contents/ui/LocationsFixedView.qml M +37 -4 kcms/nightcolor/package/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/commit/bad72c931e95bfb325ece391e0ffc6e0153d9d51