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["Mario Guerriero" <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>]

I can confirm Jamie.




While testing my app I tried to use the content_exchange policy but the testers said they cannot access to photos which were not taken by my app.

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On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 09/15/2013 11:33 AM, Thomas Voß wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Michael Zanetti
>> <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Sunday 15 September 2013 17:57:35 Thomas Voß wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> I need to access photos from all apps (in a read only mode) and I need to
>>>>> access photos from my app which create them using the camera.
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm, accessing the content of other applications violates the current
>>>> confinement approach.
>>>> Wouldn't it be sufficient for your app to just display the photos
>>>> taken with your app to the user?
>>>
>>> Hmm, I could think of lots of use cases to display pictures from the pictures
>>> folder within an app. For example image manipulation programs could import
>>> them, social media apps could want to share them (e.g. attached to a blog
>>> post), chat applications to select an avatar etc.
>>>
>> 
>> While the filesystem might have such a folder, the intended way to
>> solve the use-cases you are mentioning above is the
>> content-picking/sharing infrastructure.
>> 
>>> I think that an app should not be able to access other app's pictures (e.g.
>>> stored in /home/phablet/.cache/$APPID/ ) but accessing the common pictures
>>> folder is probably a must-have in the long run, no?
>>>
>> 
>> Well, the confinement approach basically says: There is no content on
>> the phone that is not owned by an app. With that, the pictures folder
>> would be owned by the default Gallery application and thus,
>> confinement rules would apply again.
>> 
>> I'm trying to understand this app's concrete use-case better to
>> propose a way forward.
>> 
> Mario should respond, but to prod this along: aiui, his 'Memories' application
> wants to aggregate photos, etc from all applications, and has the ability to
> take pictures. To me, it sounds like it is both a content source (because it can
> take pictures) and a content consumer (because it wants to pull in (selected?)
> photos.
> Mario, can you confirm?
> -- 
> Jamie Strandboge                 http://www.ubuntu.com/