On Friday 25 October 2013 08:13:20 Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On 13-10-25 06:43 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote: > <snip> > > >> 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 "music_files" policy group. > > > * An alternative Camera app that allows making funny pictures like the > > google hangout toolbox > > That's supported with the "picture_files" policy group. > > > * An office suite > > Wouldn't an office suite store it's files in its own directory? > > > * An app like the Parrot AR.Drone controller wouldn't be able to store > > pictures taken with the drone's camera in a place where a user can ever > > find it again. > > That's supported with the "picture_files" policy group. > > > I personally think this should be considered higher priority than after > > 14.10. Also I don't really see why allowing access to arbitrary > > subfolders in $HOME (granted by policy ofc) is more problematic than > > allowing access to location, address book, microphone or camera. > > It's not more problematic, but it currently leads to a manual review process > because allowing an app to access all the user's files is > security-sensitive and defeats being able to install and trust arbitrary > applications from the store. > > In the future, I hope we'll be able to remove the manual review process step > by adding appropriate content providers for those items that will prompt > the user on first access. > > > A policy "write_pictures" that gives write access to $HOME/Pictures > > doesn't > > sound like the end of security to me. > > We have that already, it's called "picture_files". >
Oh, nice. What is the problem then why Robert's use cases don't work? I understood Jamie's explanation as this is not supported (and won't be in the foreseeable future). Cheers, Michael -- 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
