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?
