Sync strings in MD settings are weird |
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Issue descriptionWhat steps will reproduce the problem? (1) Be signed in to chrome (2) Turn off all parts of sync from settings (3) Look at chrome://settings What is the expected result? See "Sync is off" or similar. What happens instead? See "Sync: On - custom settings" Why don't we have an off state? Or if sync is on, why can't I see what's syncing? See attached images for more clarification. Specifically, the first says sync is on, the second implies sync is off. Other notes: everything in sync-internals appears to be "Not running" except: - Device Info - Managed Users - Managed User Shared Setting I don't know if those are always-on, enforced by policy, etc. cc'ing some webui folks in case this is settings related and assigning to ewald@ for sync clarification on desired behavior.
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May 17 2017
+Nicolas for Sync opinions, +Alan for MD settings UX, +Shimi for strings advice Even if you uncheck all the boxes, Sync is technically still on (Nicolas, correct me if I'm wrong about that). As you mentioned, DeviceInfo (which is our most basic datatype that is internal to the Sync system) will still be syncing even if you uncheck all the boxes, so Chrome is still talking to the Sync servers. I think it would be misleading to characterize that as "Off," since data is still being sent to Google. If you want to fully turn Sync off, the way to do that is to sign out of Chrome. Also decreasing the priority, since very few Sync users (<2% IIRC) manually modify these checkboxes.
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May 18 2017
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May 21 2018
This issue has been Available for over a year. If it's no longer important or seems unlikely to be fixed, please consider closing it out. If it is important, please re-triage the issue. Sorry for the inconvenience if the bug really should have been left as Available. For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot
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Jun 26 2018
@ewald: Can you triage this issue? Is it still relevant?
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Jun 26 2018
This UI is changing completely with the Unity redesign, so marking as WontFix now. |
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Comment 1 by dbeam@chromium.org
, May 16 2017Labels: -OS-All Hotlist-MD-Settings-People OS-Chrome OS-Linux OS-Mac OS-Windows
Status: Available (was: Untriaged)