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[John Johansen <john.johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/21/2015 09:25 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Montag, den 21.09.2015, 17:42 +0200 schrieb Krzysztof Tataradziński:
>> So for clarification:
>> app XYZ can access by content-hub other app's (YYY) file (abc.odf)
>> located in .local/share/YYY/abc.odf read and edit it, yes?
>> But could XYZ use content-hub to read/write in example in ~/Documents
>> or ~/Music?
> 
> i could imagine you could have a "reverse-content-hub" so you move the
> file back to the shared folder after editing it (something like a
> checkbox in the save dialog that says "make available to other apps"
> which would overwrite the file in ~/Documents or some such)
> 
It is also possible that the file can stay in place and never has to
be copied into the directory, or copied back out.

The important part for security is that the user uses the content-hub
to associate access of the file to the application.