Contractor only implements the first one it does not fetch data for an app,
it just enables the application to send its data to another application for
further work.
The latter would require more work on the 3rd party application while the
current setup just needs a contract file and everything el
I guess what I do not understand is how the application gets the data
by executing the command. What I see in that implementation is simply a
return of a command to run with an existing file as an argument,
instead of a way to retrieve a new file.
The difference is that the former says "I have
The earlier implementation IIRC worked in the following way.
App -> contractor [give me a list if programs that handle file type x]
<- [program a b ... ..]
App asks the user to select one or selects one itself and
App -> Contractor [program Id x, for file/uri y]
<- [command string]
App execu
Hello Akshay,
Could you clarify the process of how the data was returned?
Ubuntu's Content Hub has a nice methodology to accomplish this. It has
an, what I assume to be QML, object that represents the transfer, and
the data is transferred through that, not by running a command.
Perhaps Contr
Hey Cameron,
What you are describing sounds very similar to androids intent system.
The fist version of contractor did return data but the problem with that
was the application had to execute a command returned as a string so if a
program was running as root and a malicious program used the same
Yes, I can definitely see how much this would expand Contractor's
scope, but it is possible that we could engage with the GNOME community
to work on Contractor, since it does not seem like Lennart Poettering
has begun the portals work.
Content Hub seems to be already developed, but its API is
Hey Cameron,
I've been thinking about app containment too and I know I feel better on iOS
that apps have to ask my permission to use things like location services.
I think it would be worth looking at the solutions from both Canonical and
GNOME first before we go building our own solution.
Hello all,
I recently have taken an interest in some of the containment and
security features being developed for Ubuntu touch, as well as Lennart
Poettering's plans for containment on GNOME.
One of the recurring aspects that I see is a "Content Hub" (Ubuntu) or
"application Portals" (GNOME)
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