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

I saw the content-hub progresses but I needed that for the contest. No problems anyway as beuno said that he will let the judges know about mine "problem".




Regards,

Mario

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On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Ken VanDine <ken.vandine@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> We are really close to landing enough of the content-hub for you to be able
> to make that work.  To pull pictures from other apps, you would use the
> content-hub API to get the default peer for pictures, which is gallery-app
> and provides the UI for picking pictures and returns them back to your app.
>  You can also query all known peers that can provide pictures as well.
> Your app could also be registered as a known provider for pictures, which
> would allow other apps to find them.  To do this you would need to
> implement an export handler, which provides the UI to browse and pick.
>  There is also currently work underway to provide a default SDK component
> that could be used for picking.
> I really hope we can land all the necessary bits to make this work with app
> confinement this week.  You can find code examples in the content-hub
> source:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~phablet-team/content-hub/trunk/files/head:/examples/import-qml/
> Thanks,
> --Ken
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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/
>>>
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