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It's not that simple, and it's easy to misdesign such API. Say, VLC team had argued that a video player may need to open a supplementary subtitle file. If appl
by drdaeman 11y ago
It's not that simple, and it's easy to misdesign such API.
Say, VLC team had argued that a video player may need to open a supplementary subtitle file. If application can be only granted access to a single video file - that's impossible. I think there were other examples, but I don't remember those off-hand.
- nine_k 11y agoFilesystems are trees. VOX could have read access to a particular tree (~/Videos) and no access to everything else, including but not limited to ~/Documents/Finance
- marcosdumay 11y agoIt's certainly not simple. This is a big UX problem, but one worth solving.