Actually, we do have a mechanism that enables the automatic connections in those cases, and we can enable it in sensible cases, even for the camera.
The question we should ask here is this: what is the snap purpose? Is it clear from the snap name and description that this is using a camera? If the answer yes, then I think it's fine to auto-connect. In this particular case, the snap name is called "webcam-webui". IMO, it'd be fine to auto-connect it. Jamie? On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Oliver Grawert <o...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > hi, > Am Dienstag, den 21.02.2017, 11:03 -0500 schrieb Dev Dev: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone can give me more information (ETA, how it will works) about > > the > > connection to camera. Right now, I need to ask my users who installed > > myapp via the Software Center to open a terminal and run: > > sudo snap connect myapp:camera > > > > It needs to be automagically connected. > > if that was the case, what would keep me from creating "myapp-so-much- > more-shiny" that then quietly and constantly streams the camera pic to > some website without the user knowing ? (and also since i used the > myapp name in my snap your company might even get the blame for the > spying as well as the bad press around it) > > the manual connection of some risky interfaces is exactly what keeps > the users safe from bad stuff happening, we would not need interfaces > if we connected all of them automatically. > > i agree that having a more interactive way is the way to go here ... > i.e. if you install a gui app it should ask for the connection on first > access (and only on first) ... or when installing from cmdline it might > offer the connection at install time, but such potentially security > critical interfaces should really not auto-connect. > > ciao > oli > -- > Snapcraft mailing list > Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/snapcraft > > -- gustavo @ http://niemeyer.net
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