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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/14/2013 07:18 AM, Michael Nelson wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Marc Deslauriers
>> <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On 13-10-10 04:07 PM, Martin Albisetti wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> It's been an exciting month in the click appstore. The contest really
>>>> put all our assumptions to the test and had us on our feet fixing and
>>>> improving things left and right.
>>>> We still have a while to go, but things are looking smoother every day.
>>>>
>>>> One thing that became obvious very quickly was that verifying custom
>>>> namespaces (com.yourdomain) is painful and hard to automate. It also
>>>> adds little or no value to users and developers.
>>>> I was wondering if we shouldn't just lock everyone into a
>>>> com.ubuntu.developer.* namespace, and keep custom namespaces for
>>>> specific exceptions (maybe for specific large companies and other
>>>> special cases).
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts on this?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I would simply stop verifying them, but not force people to use a specific
>>> namespace.
>>>
>>
>> +1.
>>
>>> AFAIK, other things that use a similar namespace approach don't actually verify
>>> them either.
>>>
>>
>> Correct. As I understand it, namespacing is just a way to ensure
>> unique naming in a way that is easy to understand and easily works
>> together with check for (in)equality on a pure string level.
> 
> That makes sense to me, maybe with the condition that either (a) we
> never present the namespace to users (do we present the fully
> qualified package name?) or (b) it's clear to users that installing
> com.google.gtalk-utouch doesn't mean it's from google (also hard?). Or
> are those conditions not necessary?
> 

For 'a', it is isn't exposed to users in a graphical way that I know of except
via one app: Permy (a permissions app). But down below the UI it is everywhere:
click list will show it, aa-status will show it, ps will show it, etc.


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Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/

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