On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 17:22 -0500, espy wrote: > > On 02/01/2017 09:46 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 20:33 +0800, James Henstridge wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > [...] > > > > > > > > > 3. QNetworkAccessManager wants to access NetworkManager > > > > > > We use QNetworkAccessManager as our HTTP library. This results in a > > > number of denials for D-Bus method calls to NetworkManager. > > > > > > I can make these denials go away by plugging in to the > > > ":network-manager" slot, but a quick look at that interface shows that > > > it grants a lot more permissions than I need or want (i.e. permission > > > to reconfigure the network). > > > > > > I imagine that a lot of snaps will use QNetworkAccessManager, so it > > > would be nice if the calls it makes were allowed by some > > > auto-connectable interface. If not as part of ":network", then > > > something similar. > > The network-manager API is highly privileged (and messy) and should not be > > auto- > > connected. Most applications that use network manager are only trying to > > figure > > out if they are online or not, but the way to do that in the network manager > > API > > is to query a ton of things a confined app shouldn't typically have. This is > > what Qt does by default and this is why the connectivity-api was developed > > and > > used on Touch[1]. connectivity-api is proxy that can answer questions like > > "am I > > online" on behalf of the application. On Touch, iirc, Qt was modified to use > > connectivity-api so Touch apps transparently used connectivity-api behind > > the > > scenes. > AFAIK, the Touch version of Qt was never modified to use the > connectivity-api (which is part of indicator-network), as the API was > never fully fleshed out. It really only offered two public properties > 'Status' ( Offline | Connecting | Online ) and a boolean flag which > indicated whether or not the connection was bandwidth-limited. > > As such, it really wasn't enough to support the internal Qt network > Bearer API. > Lorn created a bearer plugin: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1404188/com ments/28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1404188/com ments/30
but it looks like it wasn't finished: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1404188/com ments/34 Perhaps someone from the Personal team can comment? -- Jamie Strandboge | http://www.canonical.com
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