Comment 8 for bug 2029030

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James Carroll (james-carroll) wrote :

There's some capability in the portals to check if any given snap/flatpak has access to a file, and if not, drop it in the sandboxed namespace the same way the file picker works. It's not something we'd be able to do on our end though, it'd require the file manager to assess if the target application is confined, whether the mediation is needed, and actually perform it. From Pinta's perspective, it'd just be as if everything was in `/run` by coincidence and in theory wouldn't require any changes on the app end.

Unfortunately, I don't think it's yet a thing in any DE I'm aware about.

I've put a request in the forums to get the automatic connection going. There's a week waiting period to collect votes and if successful, I'll need to push a new revision out to encourage the older clients to download the new asserions to fully trigger it, otherwise it'd only be new installations that would have recieved the new instructions from the store.

https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/request-for-automatic-removable-media-connection-for-pinta/36178