Am 2020-03-06 08:20, schrieb Nicolás Alvarez:
Apple can give its million appstore apps access to Google calendar data, and Mozilla can let addons access email data, but we can't? What do they do differently?
The only thing they do differently is that they have a permission system in place. Doesn't apply for Thunderbird of course which means we should look at their privacy policy. Though we should never ask Google "Why is Thunderbird allowed?" as we don't want that Thunderbird gets access revoked.
Also, Linux desktop systems are usually not sandboxed. If we didn't have Akonadi, and KOrganizer/KMail/etc used their own databases to store data without intending to share them with other apps, other apps could *still* access the data via the filesystem. Mozilla Thunderbird is approved by Google, and KWin theoretically *could* access my email because it can read ~/.mozilla. Sure, in practice it doesn't; but in practice it also doesn't access Akonadi.
Maybe we are just too open about what Akonadi can do in the privacy policy. Which I think is a good thing. On the other hand I'm sure that Mozilla doesn't state that any app could read the storage. Perhaps we need to sell Akonadi differently.
Cheers Martin
