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
