Re: Initial ideas on portals for file access

[Allan Day <allanpday gmail com>]

Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > I don't really like the word "silo" here.
...
> True. Not sure of a better word. Application-local data?

Yeah. Or application-specific, application-exclusive, application-owned...

> > > Yeah, I'm not sure how to best solve that. One option is for pitivi
> > to
> > > have all files imported into the per-app data, like the app silo
> > model.
> > > That is kind of a large change though, and the video snippets
> > imported
> > > could easily be very large.
> > ...
> > > Maybe its good enough to say
> > > that they'd have to be given full access to the Videos directory.
> >
> > Could some apps possibly have their own directory visible inside
> > $HOME?
>
> Each app gets a directory in ~/.var/app/$app-id/ where they can go wild.
> This is visible to the session and to non-sandboxed apps.

Right, but it isn't visible to the user via the file browser. What I'm
suggesting (and it isn't a thoroughly thought out suggestion) is that,
say, Pitivi is able to create ~/Pitivi, where you could drop video
assets for use by the app.

Allan