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[Carlos J Mazieri <carlos.mazieri@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/22/2013 05:00 AM, Michael Zanetti wrote:
> On Friday 19 July 2013 08:04:12 Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > 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.
> Shouldn't the policy and D-Bus things be hidden in the backend implementation
> of QDesktopServices? If an app is not allowed to open a certain mime type,
> this wouldn't just do anything or, if the api allows it, report an error back.
>
> I don't think we should add some new module doing the same as QDesktopServices
> with a different API. That would increase porting efforts for apps. But maybe I
> just read your comment wrong and you actually mean the same thing as I do?
>
> Br,
> Michael


Hello guys,

Just to let you the ubuntu-filemanager-app uses 
QDesktopServices::openUrl() to open files, I do not have a device, but 
I've heard that it does not work on a device running Ubuntu Touch, while 
in the Desktop it works.

I think some implementation is necessary on the platform to have 
QDesktopServices::openUrl() working properly.

Best Regards,
Carlos