Stable Gnome 3.20 and Freedesktop 1.4 runtimes released

[Daniel Espinosa]

Thank you very much!

I would like to see this at live.gnome.org for others to find out.
El abr. 15, 2016 7:04 AM, "Alexander Larsson" <alexl at redhat.com> escribió:

> On fre, 2016-04-15 at 06:02 -0500, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> > Could you add documentation about how to permissions on xdg-app. This
> > is because I've build an app, but it doesn't update settings, then is
> > every important to know each permission reach.
>
> Part 4 of my tutorial explains this a bit:
>
> https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2016/02/23/building-an-xdg-app-part-4/
>
> I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "settings". But I assume you mean
> dconf/gsettings. The way to currently allow dconf access is this piece
> of magic:
>
>  /* Needed for dconf to work */
>  "--filesystem=xdg-run/dconf", "--filesystem=~/.config/dconf:ro",
>  "--talk-name=ca.desrt.dconf", "--env=DCONF_USER_CONFIG_DIR=.config/dconf",
>
> I realize thats not easy to figure out this, but here is what it does,
> in order:
>
>  * Allow apps to look in /run/user/1000/dconf which is a directory that
>    dconf uses to tell you about database updates
>  * Allow your app read-only access to ~/.config/dconf which is the
>    default location for the per-user database.
>  * Allow your app to talk to the dconf dbus service.
>  * Magic environment variable to tell dconf to look in ~/.config/dconf
>    for the dconf database instead of using XDG_CONFIG_DIR, which would
>    point to ~/.var/app/org.something.App/config/
>
> Note that this allows your app to read settings from all other apps,
> which is clearly not ideal. The plan going forward is to have a
> gsettings backend which is explicitly designed to run sandboxed. Work
> has started on this, but I don't know the current state of it.
>
> > As a side note, but important too, have Software listing an app
> > permissions list before install it? A la Android, with explanation
> > about risks on each one.
>
> Yes, this is in the plans. There is APIs in libxdgapp to allow you to
> query the metadata for apps. This could be used by gnome-software to
> explain these permissions.
>
> This is not used yet, and since the work on portals are yet in its
> infancy all current xdg-apps request pretty broad permissions.
> Hopefully we will be able to change this in the near future.
>
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