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[Thomas Voß <thomas.voss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Mario,

thanks for your mail. A question first: Do you need to access pictures
from the file system only from your app or also the pictures of other
applications? In general, accessing, reading and writing content
(here: pictures) owned by other applications programmatically without
user interaction is restricted by our confinement approach.

It would be great if we could understand your use-case a little better
to help you solve it.

Thanks,

  Thomas

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Developing my app for the Ubuntu App Showdown contest I implemented a
> feature which needs to read and write photos from the file system. While
> packaging it as a click package I added the picture_files policy so that my
> app would be able to do what I supposed it to do.
>
> My problem is that MyApps reviewers told that it is not good to add
> picture_files policy to any 3rd party app while I really need it for my app.
>
> I need the picture_files policy because I need to read and write photos from
> the file system. Having content_exchange, for example, I would be able to
> write only.
>
> A reviewer suggested me to use the content hub API to do that but since it
> is not yet available and I need my app to be ready for the end of the
> contest the only solution I can see is using the picture_files policy.
>
> In conclusion I am requesting you to publish my app even if it has the
> picture_files policy. After the contest I will update it to use content hub
> API.
>
> My app is Memories, here is the link on MyApps
> https://myapps.developer.ubuntu.com/dev/click-apps/60/
>
> Best Regards,
> Mario
>
> Sent from my iPhone 5
>
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