[RFC PATCH 5/9] Define user structure for events and responses.
Mickaël Salaün
mic at digikod.net
Tue Mar 11 19:28:47 UTC 2025
On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 12:39:04AM +0000, Tingmao Wang wrote:
> On 3/6/25 03:05, Tingmao Wang wrote:
> [...]
> > This is also motivated by the potential UX I'm thinking of. For example,
> > if a newly installed application tries to create ~/.app-name, it will be
> > much more reassuring and convenient to the user if we can show something
> > like
> >
> > [program] wants to mkdir ~/.app-name. Allow this and future
> > access to the new directory?
> >
> > rather than just "[program] wants to mkdir under ~". (The "Allow this
> > and future access to the new directory" bit is made possible by the
> > supervisor knowing the name of the file/directory being created, and can
> > remember them / write them out to a persistent profile etc)
>
> Another significant motivation, which I forgot to mention, is to auto-grant
> access to newly created files/sockets etc under things like /tmp,
> $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, or ~/Downloads.
What do you mean? What is not currently possible?
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