Alexander Larsson <[email protected]> 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
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