Permissions Prompting: A Deep Dive
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My name is Oliver Calder and I am part of the Snapd team at Canonical. In this post, I’m excited to share some more information about a project I’ve been working on over several years with a talented group of people across the AppArmor, Desktop, Design, and Snapd teams: Permissions Prompting. Permissions Prompting is a new layer of user-defined security which empowers users to control at runtime the level of access applications have to the host system. There was an excellent post from around t...
  • jdr@lemmy.ml
    152·
    29 days ago

    Are they still trying to make snap happen?

    It’s not going to happen.

    • Wilmo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      72·
      29 days ago

      Its also for my experience the worst way to use apps.

      The fact that I can’t “update” my software without closing it first.

      Why can I do that with all other package formats? I get it won’t be the new version until I reopen the app but still. Its unnecessary friction.

      Also with the prompting last I used it Firefox couldn’t download anything with it enabled.

      Like you ship Ubuntu with like 4 major snaps including the security center and it hasn’t or hadn’t worked with your shipped snaps for at least a year?

    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml
      51·
      29 days ago

      Snap is already a big part of Ubuntu since years. So what do you mean by “its not going to happen”?