Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GSettings schemas for phone/tablet settings

2013-07-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-18 11:04 AM, Iain Lane wrote: > Thoughts? I'd like to get moving on being able to define schemas and > start making the system-settings application set and retrieve keys so > that app (and system) developers are able to start respecting them. FYI, App developers will not be able to use GS

[Ubuntu-phone] Applications spawning other Applications

2013-07-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, While discussion the click packages manifest, and the possibility of supporting multiple binaries inside the same click package in the future, I was wondering if we had an API where one application can spawn another. For example, to allow AppXYZ to spawn the browser pointed to a website, to s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GSettings schemas for phone/tablet settings

2013-07-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-18 12:02 PM, John McAleely wrote: > On 18/07/13 16:29, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> FYI, App developers will not be able to use GSettings in the current version >> of >> the SDK because of application confinement. >> >> Although we do have a solution for

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GSettings schemas for phone/tablet settings

2013-07-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-18 12:12 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le 18/07/2013 17:29, Marc Deslauriers a écrit : >> FYI, App developers will not be able to use GSettings in the current version >> of >> the SDK because of application confinement. > > Hey Marc, > > The specific

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Applications spawning other Applications

2013-07-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-18 01:00 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 07/18/2013 11:14 AM, Michał Sawicz wrote: >> W dniu 18.07.2013 17:38, Marc Deslauriers pisze: >>> For the browser, I imagine a URL handler will take care of it, but what >>> about >>> spawning a different

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GSettings schemas for phone/tablet settings

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-19 02:54 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 07/18/2013 06:29 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 13-07-18 11:04 AM, Iain Lane wrote: >>> Thoughts? I'd like to get moving on being able to define schemas and >>> start making the system-settings application set a

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Applications spawning other Applications

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-19 07:11 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > On Thursday 18 July 2013 20:50:28 Michał Sawicz wrote: >> W dniu 18.07.2013 20:37, Thomas Voß pisze: >>> Good point and I do agree in general, However, once we allow mime-type >>> handling we break the strict per-app siloing of content. >>> >>> Not sur

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Applications spawning other Applications

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
ell? =) You can do it, but it will be restricted to the same confinement, which is likely not what you want. Marc. > > > 19.07.13 16:04 Marc Deslauriers написал(а): > > On 13-07-19 07:11 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: >> On Thursday 18 July 2013 20:50:28 Michał Sawicz w

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] GSettings schemas for phone/tablet settings

2013-07-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-07-19 08:57 AM, David Planella wrote: > Al 18/07/13 18:32, En/na Marc Deslauriers ha escrit: >> On 13-07-18 12:12 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >>> Le 18/07/2013 17:29, Marc Deslauriers a écrit : >>>> FYI, App developers will not be able to use GSettings i

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is pragmatically taking a screenshot possible?

2013-09-29 Thread Marc Deslauriers
ssible for security reasons. Marc. -- Marc Deslauriers Ubuntu Security Engineer | http://www.ubuntu.com/ Canonical Ltd. | http://www.canonical.com/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launc

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Is pragmatically taking a screenshot possible?

2013-09-29 Thread Marc Deslauriers
a trusted application. Applications in the store won't be allowed to take screenshots for security reasons. Marc. > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Marc Deslauriers > wrote: >> On 13-09-29 06:28 AM, James Mugford wrote: >>> Wow, as easy as that? >>> >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Accessing the user's files in a click app

2013-10-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-10-25 06:43 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: >> In short, your use case falls into the category of 'backup software' and >> backup software is not supported by the appstore at this time. > > > Just to add some more unsupported use cases: > > * A Music downloader That's supported with the "musi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Accessing the user's files in a click app

2013-10-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-10-25 08:20 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > On Friday 25 October 2013 08:13:20 Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 13-10-25 06:43 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: >> >> >>>> In short, your use case falls into the category of 'backup software' and >>>&

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] MeeGo applauncherd: faster application startup and more

2013-10-30 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-10-30 11:58 AM, Omer Akram wrote: > I think this is something that should be looked into, this cycle. We really > nned > faster startup for apps :) > What impact does this have on ASLR? Marc. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchp

[Ubuntu-phone] IMPORTANT: Upgrading phone to trusty image

2013-11-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi all, I upgraded my phone to the trusty image today using phablet-tools, but got hit with a bug that resulted in losing all my data. (bye bye pictures!) Although the best way to do the upgrade was mentioned on the list, I noticed it too late, so here is the current info so nobody else gets hit

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Cross-compile with CMake from SDK Apps to Unity8/Mir

2013-12-16 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-12-16 07:07 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote: > Are you implying there are canonical projects not using CMake yet? > > > There are, yes. Off the top of my head: > - ubuntu-ui-toolkit > - oxide (not in the archive yet) > > There might be more. > I've added a work item to switch oxide to CMa

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Multiple versions of apps in store

2013-12-16 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-12-16 08:27 AM, Martin Albisetti wrote: > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Alan Pope wrote: >> >> >> We have core apps and 3rd party apps in the store. Currently each app >> in the store has one published version and that has ubuntu-sdk-13.10 >> defined as the framework in the manifest.json

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Multiple versions of apps in store

2013-12-16 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-12-16 11:05 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > On 16 December 2013 15:27, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >> On 12/16/2013 07:54 AM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >>> On 16 December 2013 13:27, Martin Albisetti wrote: On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > > > We ha

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Device-Specific configs in debs

2014-01-14 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-01-14 05:46 PM, Alex Chiang wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >> On 01/14/2014 03:11 PM, Chris Wayne wrote: >>> Hi Guys, >>> >>> So after looking at customizing powerd, I noticed several areas where we >>> have >>> device-specific config files living inside d

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Device-Specific configs in debs

2014-01-15 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-01-15 01:43 PM, Alex Chiang wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Marc Deslauriers > wrote: >> On 14-01-14 05:46 PM, Alex Chiang wrote: >>> >>> Speaking with Steve Langasek yesterday, I got strong guidance that all >>> per-device configs really ne

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] universe vs. main packages in the image

2014-01-30 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-01-30 10:20 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > > by trusty release we plan to have all shipped packages on the phone in > main and fully supported, to get to this we will need a ton of Main > Inclusion Requests to be processed ... given the MIR team is really > small i think it is time to slo

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] universe vs. main packages in the image

2014-01-30 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-01-30 10:52 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Marc Deslauriers > wrote: >> On 14-01-30 10:20 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: >>> libavcodec54 >>> libavformat54 >>> libavutil52 >>> libdvdnav4 >>> libdvdread4 >&g

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Required codecs on the ubuntu-phone

2014-02-12 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-02-12 07:10 AM, Iain Lane wrote: > [ Dropped Sergio and Colin from CC ] > > On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 05:56:05PM +, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> On 11 February 2014 14:57, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Ricardo Salveti de Araujo >>> wrote:

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Required codecs on the ubuntu-phone

2014-02-12 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-02-12 09:33 AM, Iain Lane wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 07:28:46AM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 14-02-12 07:10 AM, Iain Lane wrote: >> […] >> They need to be in a separate _source_ package so all the build dependencies >> still don't get pulled in

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-03-06 12:19 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey everyone, > > That's a topic that has been discussed between different groups of people > recently, on merge requests [1] and bug reports, and it feels like we should > have the discussion on a common place/together, to decide what is best, and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-03-06 12:19 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey everyone, > > That's a topic that has been discussed between different groups of people > recently, on merge requests [1] and bug reports, and it feels like we should > have the discussion on a common place/together, to decide what is best, and

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-03-06 01:08 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Le 06/03/2014 19:02, Marc Deslauriers a écrit : >> Wouldn't a better design be to have the lock screen in the user's session? >> That >> way each user can have their own lock screen, and it can access the user

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-03-06 01:16 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote: >> 2. get lightdm to connect to the user-session bus and send back selected >> informations to the greeter. >> >> That seems like the most flexible/powerful solution, giving access to >> the user session might be a concern for security though. > > In a s

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Sharing dynamic informations between the user session and the greeter

2014-03-06 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-03-06 01:06 PM, Thomas Voß wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Marc Deslauriers > wrote: >> On 14-03-06 12:19 PM, Sebastien Bacher wrote: >>> Hey everyone, >>> >>> That's a topic that has been discussed between different groups of people

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Calling for Click signing

2014-06-18 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-18 10:33 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-18 at 14:39 +0100, John Lenton wrote: >> On 18 June 2014 14:27, Ondrej Kubik wrote: >>> Idea is to protect from using side load to update existing application with >>> intruder's version to gain access to application private data or phone

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-25 11:02 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 09:12 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: >>> IRC and messaging platforms not covered by "Online Accounts" >> >> Push notifications FTW, they provide an easy and straightforward way >> out of the lifecycle trap. > > Push notifications are tota

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-25 12:21 PM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: > Am 25.06.2014 17:21, schrieb Marc Deslauriers: >> On 14-06-25 11:02 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: >>> On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 09:12 +0200, Thomas Voß wrote: >>>>> IRC and messaging platforms not covered by "Online Accou

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-25 01:00 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 11:21 -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> It most certainly matters. The amount of applications in the Android store >> that >> were created _specifically_ to generate revenue from user tracking is >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-25 01:20 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 06/25/2014 11:47 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 14-06-25 12:21 PM, Benjamin Zeller wrote: >>> Am 25.06.2014 17:21, schrieb Marc Deslauriers: >>>> On 14-06-25 11:02 AM, Rodney Dawes wrote: >>>>>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-25 02:11 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 13:23 -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> So I gather you have the same problem on iOS, as much of the same limitations >> exist there? > > I don't now, nor have I ever, owned any iOS devices. Nor have I >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Background services: a problem that we need to face

2014-06-25 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-06-25 03:29 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 14:44 -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 14-06-25 02:11 PM, Rodney Dawes wrote: >>> On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 13:23 -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >>>> So I gather you have the same probl

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-07 04:45 PM, Alexander Sack wrote: > On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: >> hi, >> >> with RTM approaching quickly we are working on the developer mode to >> make it act in a more secure manner. the following changes were >> discussed with the security team and will be

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-07 06:43 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > 3) on request of the security team it should not be possible to enable > adb access if there is no password or the default password set for the > phablet user so that there is no predictable sudo password that is > identical on all devices. there are st

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-07 06:14 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2014 at 04:47:38PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >>>> 4) you will be able to switch developer mode on/off in the >>>> system-settings in a sub page of the "about this device"

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-07 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-07 07:09 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 12:20:56AM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote: > Sure, you enable a password/PIN on the lock screen. > >>> I may be misunderstanding; does this imply that one must enable >>> password-based unlock on the screen in order to have p

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-08 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-08 01:03 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Marc Deslauriers [2014-07-07 17:34 -0400]: >> We also asked that adb refuse connections if the screen is locked. Is this >> implemented? > > All the other bits (requiring changing of password etc.) already make > it rather hard f

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-08 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-08 04:36 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Montag, den 07.07.2014, 17:34 -0400 schrieb Marc Deslauriers: >> On 14-07-07 06:43 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: >>> 3) on request of the security team it should not be possible to enable >>> adb access if there

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Status update: Planned changes to the developer mode/adb access

2014-07-09 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-07-08 04:36 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Montag, den 07.07.2014, 17:34 -0400 schrieb Marc Deslauriers: >> On 14-07-07 06:43 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: >>> 3) on request of the security team it should not be possible to enable >>> adb access if there

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developer mode, ADB and SSH

2014-08-04 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-08-04 07:42 AM, David Planella wrote: > Hi all, > > With the recent landing of the developer mode UI and from previous discussions > on the list and on IRC, I understand that: > > - ADB will be disabled by default, but can be enabled/disabled using the > switch > in the developer mode > -

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developer mode, ADB and SSH

2014-08-04 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-08-04 07:52 AM, David Planella wrote: > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Marc Deslauriers > <mailto:marc.deslauri...@canonical.com>> wrote: > > On 14-08-04 07:42 AM, David Planella wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > With the recent landing of

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Developer mode, ADB and SSH

2014-08-04 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 14-08-04 07:55 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On 14-08-04 07:52 AM, David Planella wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Marc Deslauriers >> > <mailto:marc.deslauri...@canonical.com>> wrote: >> >> On 14-08-04 07:42 AM, David Planella wrote: >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SD Card access for applications

2014-11-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2014-11-12 11:58 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > Pulling into CC various stakeholders. > > On 11/12/2014 09:47 AM, Florian Boucault wrote: >> Hello all, >> > Hi! > >> The camera and the gallery app today are authorized to read/write in >> /home/$USER/Pictures and /home/$USER/Videos. >> Soon they

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SD Card access for applications

2014-11-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2014-11-13 12:08 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 11/13/2014 08:25 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 2014-11-12 11:58 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >>> Pulling into CC various stakeholders. >>> >>> On 11/12/2014 09:47 AM, Florian Boucault wrote: > >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SD Card access for applications

2014-11-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2014-11-13 02:08 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On 11/13/2014 12:32 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 2014-11-13 12:08 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >>> On 11/13/2014 08:25 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >>>> On 2014-11-12 11:58 AM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >>>

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Beru no longer runs from Qt Creator

2015-02-01 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 2015-02-01 02:35 PM, Robert Schroll wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been banging my head against this for quite a few hours and am getting > nowhere, so maybe someone out there can help: Sometime in the past few months, > Beru [1] has lost the ability to be run from within Qt Creator. When I hi

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] webapps and script injection

2015-04-13 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2015-04-10 06:15 PM, Alan Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > there is a somewhat sparsely documented feature of webapps that allow you to > specify --webappModelSearchPath=. as a parameter of webapp-container in the > .desktop file and have a file called webapp-properties.json in the project. > This >

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Can we make renames work?

2015-05-20 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2015-05-20 11:04 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Iain, > > Iain Lane [2015-05-20 15:19 +0100]: >> We sometimes come across bugs where software expects to be able to >> rename files to work properly (either to atomically update, or perhaps >> to disable some functionality). This doesn't work with

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] SEGFAULT in silos - Was Re: Landing team 09.06.15

2015-06-10 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2015-06-10 11:34 AM, Jason DeRose wrote: > I noticed a (seemingly) related build failure over the weekend: > > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/208521008/buildlog_ubuntu-wily-amd64.degu_0.14.0~alpha~bzr339~ubuntu15.10.1_BUILDING.txt.gz > > As this is a failure (seemingly) caused by an independen

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] mapplauncher

2015-07-29 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 2015-07-29 10:26 AM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 11:25 +0300, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >> On 07/29/2015 07:07 AM, Tyler Hicks wrote: >> > This stage is not sufficient since there is no exec() performed >> > here. This removes the possibility of per-process address space >> > layout r

[Ubuntu-phone] SDK installation on raring

2013-02-26 Thread Marc Deslauriers
I'm trying to install the SDK, as detailed here: http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/gomobile/ But, I'm hitting the following on Raring: The following packages have unmet dependencies: ubuntu-sdk : Depends: qt-components-ubuntu-examples but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to corre

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Solution for a password/secret storage

2013-03-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
Hi, On 13-03-18 08:50 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > Hi all! > I'd like to discuss about our plans for a password/secret storage > service which could be used by applications to store and retrieve secret > data. > > On the desktop, we are currently using the GNOME keyring, which we > cannot use

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Solution for a password/secret storage

2013-03-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-03-19 03:22 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote: > On 03/18/2013 05:01 PM, Bruno Girin wrote: >> Not all devices will have a SIM, tablets in particular may not. And >> looking forward to 14.04, I assume we'd want this code to be re-usable >> on the desktop (or server even)? > > Might be a good idea,

Re: [Ubuntu-phone] [Development] Solution for a password/secret storage

2013-03-19 Thread Marc Deslauriers
On 13-03-19 09:31 AM, Robert Bruce Park wrote: > On 13-03-19 05:57 AM, Bruno Girin wrote: >> On 19/03/13 10:01, Alberto Mardegan wrote: >>> Yes. In fact, it's possible to make the two passwords go out of >>> sync, and there you'll be prompted to enter your keyring master >>> password as the first a