Plans for portals that integrate widgets inside the app window?

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Thu Jun 23 20:26:40 UTC 2016


On tor, 2016-06-23 at 20:18 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> This is actually also a problem with GTK+-built portals right now,
> and
> I've mentioned to Matthias and Alex that the compositor should try to
> differentiate this type of system popup implemented in GTK+ compared
> to
> the same version of "in the sandbox" popup.

I'm not sure what the attack would be if you're opening up an in-
sandbox file chooser that "looks like" the portal one? It could never
gain access to anything anyway, even if you interact with it. (And it
would be obvious, since it didn't actually show the files from the
host.)

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