On fre, 2015-03-13 at 12:45 +0000, Allan Day wrote:
> "Alexander Larsson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I think a bigger problem might be with document types where the
> assets
> > > aren't in the same file. For example, again with video, a Pitivi
> > > project would have a project file (which you'd open), and assets
> in
> > > the same directory.
>
> I don't really like the word "silo" here. It has negative
> connotations, when per-application storage might well often be an
> appropriate choice. Also, it's a bit ambiguous, and implies that
> there's no way to get content out is the silo (which is what sharing
> and content selection aim to do).
True. Not sure of a better word. Application-local data?
> > 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.
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