[pulseaudio-discuss] Flat volumes and programmatic volume access (again)

[Arun Raghavan]

On Mon, 2015-10-19 at 15:30 +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> 19.10.2015 14:49, Arun Raghavan wrote:
[...]
> > * I'd also like to add a policy module to allow blacklisting
> > specific
> > applications, and forcing this behaviour on them. This will need a
> > protocol update to set a stream flag after the stream is connected.
> > 
> > * For legacy apps that are not covered by the blacklist we could
> > add an
> > environment variable that makes all stream and sink-input volume
> > -related bits to use the new behaviour.
> 
> The question here is whether we would later want to force this upon
> all 
> sandboxed applications (xdg-app).

For sandboxing, the approach would probably need to be different --
such as the access control system we've been talking about for xdg-app.

Having the decision and implementation done server-side means that the
same mechanism as the blacklist would work for the permissions system.

-- Arun