1. Application APIs Hackfest 2016

1.1. Second half of 2016

Primary contact: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Secondary contact: TBD

1.2. Relevant GNOME teams

The GTK+ team, designers, xdg-app and snappy developers

1.2.1. Description

Sandboxed applications need suitable high-level APIs that let them access resources outside the sandbox in a controlled fashion. xdg-app has the concept of 'portals' for this, and there are implementations of portals for documents and geolocation, but the APIs have not been widely adopted yet.

The goal of this hackfest will be to agree on APIs that can be shared between various sandboxing efforts and toolkits, and to make progress on implementations.

Apart from Documents, candidates for shared APIs include:

• Documents
• Settings
• Open URL
• Share Text/Image (with twitter, facebook, email, etc)
• Notifications
• Proxy settings
• Network status
• Location
• Printing
• Device access: Camera/Microphone
• ...

1.2.2. Agenda

TBD

1.2.3. Dates and Venue

TBD. It seems realistic to aim for the second half of the year, in Europe.

1.2.4. Accommodation

TBD

1.2.5. Attendants

1.3. Open Issues

1.4. Blog posts

Here we will link all the blog posts published during or after the hackfest, including information about the work done.