Application APIs Hackfest 2016
Second half of 2016
Primary contact: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Secondary contact: TBD
Relevant GNOME teams
The GTK+ team, designers, xdg-app and snappy developers
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
- ...
Agenda
TBD
Dates and Venue
TBD. It seems realistic to aim for the second half of the year, in Europe.
Accommodation
TBD
Attendants
Name |
Role |
Travel costs |
Foundation member |
Accommodation |
Arrival |
Departure |
Confirmed |
Roommate |
Total sponsorship request |
Matthias Clasen |
GTK+ maintainer |
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Open Issues
Blog posts
Here we will link all the blog posts published during or after the hackfest, including information about the work done.