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)
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.
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
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 executes
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
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
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