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[Loïc Minier <loic.minier@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013, Daniel Holbach wrote:
>  - this would be plugins or addons which are not part of the
>    default install
>  - they probably wouldn't use confinement
>  - they probably wouldn't need to be listed in the store, but
>    maybe in a special category, so they could be installed on
>    demand or automatically(?)

thanks for starting this; the specific example is GStreamer plugins,
typically providing extra codecs.  These would be available for all
Click apps calling into QtMultimedia which uses GStreamer, and to system
apps such as webbrowser-app, mediascanner etc.

I was thinking we could achieve this by having some flag in the Click to
indicate it's a GStreamer codec, then have a hook that would pick up
such installation to deploy the codec in an end-user or system-wide
directory.

We would hide these from search results by default, but be able to
install as needed (similar to what we do with GStreamer elements on the
desktop).

Review scripts would catch this class of Clicks and require them to
come from com.canonical.xyz or something like that.

-- 
Loïc Minier