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
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// 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")
}
}
}