RE: Mandatory Access Control was Re: Plans for gnome-vfs replacement

["Bastian, Waldo" <waldo bastian intel com>]

>David Malcolm <dmalcolm redhat com> wrote:
>
>> (Maybe there's a way to implement a trusted filechooser and only
>> allow the app access to files which the user has selected in the
>> GUI?
>
>This is what Plash implements (see http://plash.beasts.org).  This
>kind of file chooser is known as a powerbox, taking the term from
>CapDesk.

You would need to combine that with a trusted "recently used files"
service then, I imagine... for applications that want to keep a
reference to files opened through the file dialog for later use.

Cheers,
Waldo