This is great to hear!

Do we need to let the MDN docs team / someone else know to update docs
about this for app developers, so they can learn about this new
ability? This seems like something that quite a few developers might
be interested in.

- Ryan

On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Kyle Machulis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Assuming https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=B2g-Inbound&rev=59eb7edaa6ed doesn't 
> catch fire, we'll be landing bug 846200, bug 900551, and bug 1015518 into 
> nightly today or tomorrow. These encompass the ability to access the settings 
> API from privileged apps.
>
> Of course, we don't want privileged apps hitting ALL settings, so we're also 
> introducing the ability to have per-settings permissions. For instance, once 
> these bugs land, there will be a new settings:wallpaper.image permission that 
> will allow privileged apps to read and/or write just the wallpaper setting. 
> We'll be expanding the settings that are exposed as needed.
>
> The settings API will remain mostly the same, outside of the addition of a 
> "MozSettingsTransactionEvent" that will now be fired at the end of lock 
> lifetime, to notify the lock creator that all queries on the lock either 
> succeeded or failed.
>
> Please file bugs and assign to me if you see any issues with settings.
>
> Thanks!
> Kyle
> _______________________________________________
> dev-b2g mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
_______________________________________________
dev-b2g mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g

Reply via email to