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Re:Curl is C by arcticbull on Monday March 27, 2017 @12:29PM (#13969111)
That's actually how many apps on macOS have worked for years. Anything that ships in the Mac App Store runs in a sandbox with limited privileges. In fact, every instance of an Open/Save panel on macOS run in a separate process to the main application and relay their visual appearance using XPC and NSRemoteView. It's pretty cool stuff!
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Re:Curl is C by ssokolow on Monday March 27, 2017 @09:20PM (#13973200)
That's also the direction Linux is heading with Flatpak and Flatpak portals.

I'm excited because there will finally be a reliable way for me to apply my preferred Open/Save dialogs to KDE and GTK+ apps alike. (It's being implemented at the toolkit level and you can run an app in Flatpak with sandboxing set to permit-all to get the portal hooking.)

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