Add a Privacy & Security page

Continuing towards GNOME Settings parity. GNOME's Privacy panel covers
screen lock, camera and microphone access, file history, trash, and
device security; Panama had no equivalent page at all, despite already
tracking camera and microphone use for the bar indicator.

Device security is a new read-only readout: Secure Boot, TPM, disk
encryption, SELinux mode, and the firewall. None of these is a
preference -- they are set in firmware, at install time, or by system
policy, and a switch offering to change them would either fail or do
something far-reaching from a control that looks like every other
control. What it answers is "is this machine set up the way I think it
is", which otherwise takes five commands and root. Facts that cannot be
determined report Unknown rather than guessing, because a security
readout that quietly says "fine" when it failed to look is worse than
no readout.

File history and trash retention are deliberately NOT offered as
switches. They are GNOME preferences enforced by gsd-housekeeping, which
does not run in a Hyprland session -- verified, it is not running here.
Toggling them would store a preference, change nothing, and give no sign
of it. They are delegated to GNOME Settings by name instead.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BRvzt4H8XXLPVH5MyYdk9L
This commit is contained in:
Gabriel Brown
2026-08-18 08:20:04 -04:00
parent 7378c18ab9
commit 14529c011f
7 changed files with 245 additions and 1 deletions
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
// Privacy & Security.
//
// GNOME's Privacy panel covers screen lock, camera and microphone access, file
// history, trash, and device security. Panama covers the parts it genuinely
// owns and is explicit about the parts it does not.
//
// The file-history and trash settings are the notable omission, and the reason
// is worth stating: those are GNOME preferences enforced by gsd-housekeeping,
// which is not running in a Hyprland session. Offering switches for them would
// store a preference, change nothing, and give no sign of it -- the exact
// failure this codebase keeps designing against. So they are delegated by name
// rather than reimplemented as controls that lie.
import QtQuick
import qs.config
import qs.services
SettingsPage {
id: root
title: "Privacy & Security"
lede: DeviceSecurity.scanned && DeviceSecurity.attentionCount === 0
? "Screen lock, device access, and a machine whose security settings all check out."
: "Screen lock, which applications can see you, and how this machine is protected."
Component.onCompleted: if (!DeviceSecurity.scanned) DeviceSecurity.refresh()
SettingsCard {
title: "Screen lock"
subtitle: "The same settings as Power & Lock, which is where the idle timings live."
SliderRow { setting: "lockMinutes"; zeroLabel: "Never" }
ToggleRow { setting: "lockOnSleep"; divider: false }
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Camera & microphone"
subtitle: PrivacyState.anyActive
? "In use right now — the bar shows an indicator whenever this is true."
: "Nothing is using your camera or microphone."
TextRow {
label: "Camera"
detail: PrivacyState.cameraActive
? "In use by " + (PrivacyState.cameraApp || "an application")
: "Not in use"
value: PrivacyState.cameraActive ? "Active" : "Idle"
}
TextRow {
label: "Microphone"
detail: PrivacyState.microphoneActive
? "In use by " + (PrivacyState.microphoneApp || "an application")
: "Not in use"
value: PrivacyState.microphoneActive ? "Active" : "Idle"
}
TextRow {
label: "Screen sharing"
detail: PrivacyState.screenSharingActive
? "Being shared by " + (PrivacyState.screenSharingApp || "an application")
: "Not being shared"
value: PrivacyState.screenSharingActive ? "Active" : "Idle"
divider: false
}
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Device security"
subtitle: DeviceSecurity.attentionCount === 0
? "Everything below is in its recommended state."
: DeviceSecurity.attentionCount + " item"
+ (DeviceSecurity.attentionCount === 1 ? "" : "s") + " below may deserve attention."
Repeater {
model: DeviceSecurity.facts
TextRow {
id: factRow
required property var modelData
required property int index
label: factRow.modelData.label
detail: factRow.modelData.detail
value: factRow.modelData.value
divider: factRow.index < DeviceSecurity.facts.length - 1
}
}
}
SettingsCard {
title: "Owned by Fedora"
subtitle: "File history and trash retention are GNOME preferences, applied by a housekeeping service that does not run in a Hyprland session. Panama does not offer them as switches, because storing that preference here would change nothing."
ActionRow {
label: "File history & trash"
detail: "Opens GNOME Settings, which owns these"
action: "Open privacy"
divider: false
onTriggered: SystemSettings.openGnomePanel("privacy")
}
}
}
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ Rectangle {
case "screen-intelligence": return screenIntelligencePage;
case "shortcuts": return shortcutsPage;
case "mouse": return mousePage;
case "privacy": return privacyPage;
case "accessibility": return accessibilityPage;
case "power": return powerPage;
case "datetime": return dateTimePage;
@@ -155,6 +156,7 @@ Rectangle {
Component { id: screenIntelligencePage; ScreenIntelligencePage {} }
Component { id: shortcutsPage; ShortcutsPage {} }
Component { id: mousePage; MousePage {} }
Component { id: privacyPage; PrivacyPage {} }
Component { id: servicesPage; ServicesPage {} }
Component { id: aboutPage; AboutPage {} }
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Rectangle {
{ page: "screen-intelligence", label: "Screen Intelligence", icon: "\u{F05A8}" },
{ page: "shortcuts", label: "Keyboard", icon: "\u{F030C}" },
{ page: "mouse", label: "Mouse & Touchpad", icon: "\u{F037D}" },
{ page: "privacy", label: "Privacy & Security", icon: "\u{F0483}" },
{ page: "accessibility", label: "Accessibility", icon: "\u{F0208}" },
{ page: "power", label: "Power & Lock", icon: "\u{F0425}" },
{ page: "datetime", label: "Date & Time", icon: "\u{F0954}" },
@@ -48,3 +48,4 @@ LocationPicker 1.0 LocationPicker.qml
FontPicker 1.0 FontPicker.qml
MousePage 1.0 MousePage.qml
TextEntryRow 1.0 TextEntryRow.qml
PrivacyPage 1.0 PrivacyPage.qml
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Device security facts, as JSON.
#
# Everything here is READ-ONLY and deliberately so. Secure Boot, TPM presence,
# disk encryption, SELinux mode and the firewall are set in firmware, at install
# time, or by system policy -- none of them is a desktop preference, and a
# settings app that offered to toggle them would either fail or do something
# far-reaching from a switch that looks like any other.
#
# What it is for is answering "is this machine set up the way I think it is",
# which is the question GNOME's Device Security panel exists to answer and which
# otherwise needs five commands and root.
#
# Each fact is reported as {value, ok} where `ok` marks the reassuring state, so
# the UI can highlight what deserves attention without hard-coding the meaning
# of each string. Anything that cannot be determined reports "Unknown" with
# ok:false rather than guessing, because a security readout that quietly reports
# "fine" when it failed to look is worse than no readout.
set -uo pipefail
fact() {
jq -cn --arg label "$1" --arg value "$2" --argjson ok "$3" --arg detail "${4:-}" \
'{label: $label, value: $value, ok: $ok, detail: $detail}'
}
facts=()
# ── Secure Boot ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if command -v mokutil >/dev/null 2>&1; then
case "$(mokutil --sb-state 2>/dev/null)" in
*"SecureBoot enabled"*) facts+=("$(fact "Secure Boot" "Enabled" true "Firmware verifies the bootloader and kernel signatures")" ) ;;
*"SecureBoot disabled"*) facts+=("$(fact "Secure Boot" "Disabled" false "Firmware does not verify what it boots")") ;;
*) facts+=("$(fact "Secure Boot" "Unknown" false "The firmware did not report a Secure Boot state")") ;;
esac
elif [[ -d /sys/firmware/efi ]]; then
facts+=("$(fact "Secure Boot" "Unknown" false "Install mokutil to report this")")
else
facts+=("$(fact "Secure Boot" "Not applicable" false "This machine booted in legacy BIOS mode")")
fi
# ── TPM ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
tpm_major="$(cat /sys/class/tpm/tpm0/tpm_version_major 2>/dev/null || true)"
if [[ -n "$tpm_major" ]]; then
facts+=("$(fact "TPM" "Version $tpm_major" true "A trusted platform module is present and usable")")
elif [[ -e /sys/class/tpm/tpm0 ]]; then
facts+=("$(fact "TPM" "Present" true "A trusted platform module is present")")
else
facts+=("$(fact "TPM" "None" false "No trusted platform module, so keys cannot be sealed to this machine")")
fi
# ── Disk encryption ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
# Counts LUKS mappings rather than naming them: which volume is encrypted is
# more detail than this readout needs, and device names are not meaningful here.
crypt_count="$(lsblk -o TYPE 2>/dev/null | grep -c '^crypt$' || true)"
[[ "$crypt_count" =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] || crypt_count=0
if (( crypt_count > 0 )); then
facts+=("$(fact "Disk encryption" "$crypt_count encrypted volume$( (( crypt_count == 1 )) || printf 's')" true "Data at rest is protected by LUKS")")
else
facts+=("$(fact "Disk encryption" "None" false "No LUKS volume is unlocked on this machine")")
fi
# ── SELinux ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if command -v getenforce >/dev/null 2>&1; then
case "$(getenforce 2>/dev/null)" in
Enforcing) facts+=("$(fact "SELinux" "Enforcing" true "Policy violations are blocked")") ;;
Permissive) facts+=("$(fact "SELinux" "Permissive" false "Violations are logged but allowed")") ;;
Disabled) facts+=("$(fact "SELinux" "Disabled" false "Mandatory access control is off")") ;;
*) facts+=("$(fact "SELinux" "Unknown" false "")") ;;
esac
fi
# ── Firewall ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
if systemctl list-unit-files firewalld.service >/dev/null 2>&1; then
if [[ "$(systemctl is-active firewalld 2>/dev/null)" == "active" ]]; then
facts+=("$(fact "Firewall" "Active" true "firewalld is filtering incoming connections")")
else
facts+=("$(fact "Firewall" "Inactive" false "firewalld is installed but not running")")
fi
fi
printf '[%s]\n' "$(IFS=,; printf '%s' "${facts[*]}")"
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
pragma Singleton
// Read-only device security facts: Secure Boot, TPM, disk encryption, SELinux,
// firewall.
//
// Nothing here is a preference. These are set in firmware, at install time, or
// by system policy, and a settings app that offered to change them from a
// switch would either fail or do something far-reaching from a control that
// looks like every other control. What this answers is "is this machine set up
// the way I think it is", which otherwise takes five commands and root.
//
// Read on demand. None of these can change while the desktop is running,
// short of a reboot.
import Quickshell
import Quickshell.Io
import QtQuick
Singleton {
id: root
readonly property string helperPath: Quickshell.shellDir + "/scripts/panama-security"
// [{ label, value, ok, detail }]
property var facts: []
property bool scanned: false
// The facts that are not in their reassuring state. The page leads with the
// count so a machine that is entirely fine says so in one line instead of
// making the user read five rows to find out.
readonly property int attentionCount: root.facts.filter(fact => !fact.ok).length
function refresh(): void {
if (!query.running)
query.running = true;
}
Process {
id: query
command: [root.helperPath]
stdout: StdioCollector {
onStreamFinished: {
try {
const parsed = JSON.parse(this.text);
root.facts = Array.isArray(parsed) ? parsed : [];
} catch (error) {
root.facts = [];
console.warn("DeviceSecurity: could not parse helper output:", error);
}
root.scanned = true;
}
}
}
}
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Singleton {
}
function openSettings(page: string): void {
const allowed = ["home", "appearance", "displays", "connectivity", "home-phone", "desktop", "sound", "notifications", "screen-intelligence", "shortcuts", "mouse", "accessibility", "power", "datetime", "applications", "services", "about"];
const allowed = ["home", "appearance", "displays", "connectivity", "home-phone", "desktop", "sound", "notifications", "screen-intelligence", "shortcuts", "mouse", "privacy", "accessibility", "power", "datetime", "applications", "services", "about"];
root.settingsPage = allowed.indexOf(page) >= 0 ? page : "home";
DesktopPreferences.set("lastPage", root.settingsPage);
root.settingsOpen = true;