On 3/6/25 03:05, Tingmao Wang wrote:
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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.
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