alt Hacker NewsNo, and I'm surprised it hasn't happened by now. Genode was my hope for this, but they seem to be going away from a self hosting OS/development system.
Any application you've got assumes authority to access everything, and thus just won't work. I suppose it's possible that an OS could shim the dialog boxes for file selection, open, save, etc... and then transparently provide access to only those files, but that hasn't happened in the 5 years[1] I've been waiting. (Well, far more than that... here's 14 years ago[2])
This problem was solved back in the 1970s and early 80s... and we're now 40+ years out, still stuck trusting all the code we write.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25428345
[2] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-important-question-or...
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Note to self: don't name a project two letters 'ci' away from Genocide.
> I suppose it's possible that an OS could shim the dialog boxes for file selection, open, save, etc... and then transparently provide access to only those files
Isn't this the idea behind Flatpak portals? Make your average app sandbox-compatible, except that your average bubblewrap/Flatpak sandbox sucks because it turns out the average app is shit and you often need `filesystem=host` or `filesystem=home` to barely work.
It reminds me of that XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1200/