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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-07-19 02:54 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 06:29 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
>> On 13-07-18 11:04 AM, Iain Lane wrote:
>>> Thoughts? I'd like to get moving on being able to define schemas and
>>> start making the system-settings application set and retrieve keys so
>>> that app (and system) developers are able to start respecting them.
>>
>> FYI, App developers will not be able to use GSettings in the current version of
>> the SDK because of application confinement.
> 
> Are you talking about write access here, or is read access also
> problematic? If so, why?
> (I don't think that anyone is storing secrets in GSettings, right?)
> 

Read and write are problematic. Yes, there is a lot of privileged and
privacy-related information in GSettings that we don't want confined apps access
to, and write access to GSettings likely would allow an application to escape
confinement.

Marc.