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[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13-07-19 07:11 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> On Thursday 18 July 2013 20:50:28 Michał Sawicz wrote:
>> W dniu 18.07.2013 20:37, Thomas Voß pisze:
>>> Good point and I do agree in general, However, once we allow mime-type
>>> handling we break the strict per-app siloing of content.
>>>
>>> Not sure how to solve that issue for mime-type handling.
>>
>> Well, that only really means file:// needs to be disabled, right? So if
>> you want to access any local data, you have to go through content
>> management (but even then, gallery has both photos and videos, for
>> example - apps aren't limited to one mime type).
> 
> 
> Seems like this would be the appropriate API to do this:
> 
> http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtgui/qdesktopservices.html
> 
> Is anyone already working on providing a backend implementation suited for our 
> needs for this?
> 

A confined app wouldn't be allowed to spawn processes directly using
qdesktopservices, so it needs to be done via a separate trusted helper, likely
over dbus.

Marc.