On 09/15/2013 11:33 AM, Thomas Voß wrote: > On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Michael Zanetti > <michael.zane...@canonical.com> wrote: >> On Sunday 15 September 2013 17:57:35 Thomas Voß wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefri...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I need to access photos from all apps (in a read only mode) and I need to >>>> access photos from my app which create them using the camera. >>> >>> Hmmm, accessing the content of other applications violates the current >>> confinement approach. >>> Wouldn't it be sufficient for your app to just display the photos >>> taken with your app to the user? >> >> Hmm, I could think of lots of use cases to display pictures from the pictures >> folder within an app. For example image manipulation programs could import >> them, social media apps could want to share them (e.g. attached to a blog >> post), chat applications to select an avatar etc. >> > > While the filesystem might have such a folder, the intended way to > solve the use-cases you are mentioning above is the > content-picking/sharing infrastructure. > >> I think that an app should not be able to access other app's pictures (e.g. >> stored in /home/phablet/.cache/$APPID/ ) but accessing the common pictures >> folder is probably a must-have in the long run, no? >> > > Well, the confinement approach basically says: There is no content on > the phone that is not owned by an app. With that, the pictures folder > would be owned by the default Gallery application and thus, > confinement rules would apply again. > > I'm trying to understand this app's concrete use-case better to > propose a way forward. >
Mario should respond, but to prod this along: aiui, his 'Memories' application wants to aggregate photos, etc from all applications, and has the ability to take pictures. To me, it sounds like it is both a content source (because it can take pictures) and a content consumer (because it wants to pull in (selected?) photos. Mario, can you confirm? -- Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
