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[Michael Zanetti <michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 21 October 2013 17:46:06 Jamie Strandboge wrote:
> Recently someone asked me about adding an apparmor policy group for qtpowerd
> so that apps could stop application lifecycle from suspending the app. I
> said to file a bug and I'd look at it because I was thinking this seemed
> reasonable for a number of reasons (which I'll list below). We were told
> that apps should not generally have this permission. This particular case
> was a 3rd party music player and in this case it was easy enough to punt
> and say that 3rd party music players should use the upcoming media service.
> However...
> 
> I think we may be too strict on this. Consider the following apps:
>  * a metronome app for musicians to practice to (2 are in the app store now)
> * a white noise app to help people sleep (1 in the store)
>  * a navigation app that speaks the directions to you as you drive (none in
> the app store AFAIK, but this would be a wonderful addition)
>  * internet radio apps (there are at least 2 in the store)
>  * a 3rd party alarm clock (perhaps the API that the core app clock uses is
>    sufficient-- I haven't checked)

* I'm going to release Xbmcremote (http://notyetthere.org/?page_id=17) later 
this week. It is affected too by this. The feature to pause the running movie 
or lower the music's volume on incoming phone calls is disabled for Ubuntu.