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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Per discussions on ubuntu-phone@ (https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-
phone/msg10456.html), the directory structure for these global
directories is:

/media/$user/$label/Pictures
/media/$user/$label/Music
/media/$user/$label/Videos

'$label' is confirmed to not allow '/' in the name. Because the
directories may be on a vfat filesystem, we want the policy to be able
to handle case-insensitive names.

As such, we'll adjust the policy groups accordingly to do things like this:
  # SD card: /media/<user>/<label>/...                                           
  owner /media/*/*/[Mm][Uu][Ss][Ii][Cc]/      r,
  owner /media/*/*/[Mm][Uu][Ss][Ii][Cc]/**    rwk,

  # SD card: /media/<user>/<label>/...                                           
  owner /media/*/*/[Pp][Ii][Cc][Tt][Uu][Rr][Ee][Ss]/   r,
  owner /media/*/*/[Pp][Ii][Cc][Tt][Uu][Rr][Ee][Ss]/** rwk,

  # SD card: /media/<user>/<label>/...                                           
  owner /media/*/*/[Vv][Ii][Dd][Ee][Oo][Ss]/   r,
  owner /media/*/*/[Vv][Ii][Dd][Ee][Oo][Ss]/** rwk,

IMPORTANT: the policy will not allow creating these directories (just
like it doesn't for the ones in ~), so something else will have to
create them.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1391930

Title:
  Need a way for applications to ask permission to read/write in
  pictures/videos folders on SD card

Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in Utopic:
  In Progress
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” source package in Vivid:
  In Progress
Status in “apparmor-easyprof-ubuntu” package in Ubuntu RTM:
  New

Bug description:
  The camera and the gallery app today are authorized to read/write in /home/$USER/Pictures and /home/$USER/Videos.
  Now they also need to be able to read/write in the similar directories of the SD card, for example:
  - /media/phablet/064a-7494/Pictures
  - /media/phablet/064a-7494/Videos

  As a side note, we are using the following API in applications to retrieve the path (e.g. /home/phablet/Pictures):
  http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qstandardpaths.html#writableLocation

  To retrieve the similar path on the SD card we are considering using a
  combination of that to guess the directory name (Pictures)
  concatenated with the value of http://doc-snapshot.qt-
  project.org/qt5-5.4/qstorageinfo.html#rootPath

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