Ubuntu Desktop Team Priorities

snapd
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A few more issues for the desktop team priority list:

  • Recover from store login password changes
    After logging in to the store with Ubuntu One credentials, snapd stores a macaroon to authenticate future store API requests. When the macaroon expires, snapd will contact the SSO service to refresh that macaroon. If the user changes their password, SSO will refuse to refresh the macaroon.

    At present, snapd returns a generic “Internal Server Error” for this failure, which limits how smart a graphical application can be in prompting the user for the new credentials.

  • Set default browser (or email client, file type handler, etc)
    While snapped applications can advertise URI schemes or mime types they are capable of handling, they can not alter the user’s default application settings. Long term, this is probably a job for xdg-desktop-portal, since (a) the default settings are stored centrally in a single file, and (b) confined apps probably shouldn’t be able to alter these settings without user approval.

    Is it worth producing an interim unsafe interface that lets the apps update the settings anyway?

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