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Re: Directories allowed for apps (Future of it?)

 

hi,

Am Mittwoch, den 23.09.2015, 17:14 +0300 schrieb Alberto Mardegan:
> On 09/21/2015 08:17 PM, John Johansen wrote:
> > On 09/21/2015 09:25 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> >> 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.
> 
> Do you mean that you plan to use the user's decisions made via the
> Content Hub to dynamically add apparmor rules to confined apps (like, to
> give a certain app read access to ~/Documents/MyFile.pdf)?
> That would be super cool!
> 
> Or am I reading too much into the lines? :-)

to me it sounds more like creating a hardlink or bind-mount from
~/Documents/MyFile.pdf to /foo/app/secret-dir/MyFile.pdf via
content-hub, then you dont need to modify the apparmor rules i guess.

ciao
	oli

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