alt Hacker NewsCan't it request and be granted that permission, transparently to the app?
E.g. the app does EnumerateDirectories("~/photos") then without requiring modification to the app, the call is interecpted, the user is presented with a permission request UI, and once granted, the app continues?
At least that's how I'd thought it would work. Perhaps this isn't viable?
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weiran • today at 8:24 AM
It’s how sandboxed Mac apps work today.
Apps built with a toolkit which ships its own filepicker will immediately attempt to enumerate directories in `/`, `/home`, and probably a few other places.
Apps with a config file will often try to read `~/.config/myapp` and also `~/.myapp/config` and maybe one or two other places.
How many permission prompts will users tolerate?