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I got the initial idea from X's XEmbed. Its an old idea. Android also has remote views. Nobody is using it to avoid giving everybody permissions / capabiliti

I got the initial idea from X's XEmbed. Its an old idea. Android also has remote views. Nobody is using it to avoid giving everybody permissions / capabilities, though :(

masklinn 10y ago
> Nobody is using it to avoid giving everybody permissions / capabilities, though :( I believe MacOS uses it to provide file access to sandboxed applications: the "Open" dialog is a remote invocation so that sandboxed applications can access files outside the sandbox without having blanket filesystem access.