Mac App Store Sandbox: entitlement allowing access to screenshots

Originator:luke
Number:rdar://11734220 Date Originated:6/23/2012
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:Mac App Store Product Version:
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:
 
An entitlement allowing access (read/write, read-only) to screenshots captured by the OS would enable an entire class of existing and new apps to provide services on top of system-taken screenshots. My preference for this entitlement would be the ability to access files with the predicate kMDItemIsScreenCapture.

The alternative approach I'm trying at the moment is to use a temporary entitlement to get read/write access to the Desktop. This is obviously grants my app more access than it needs to simply process screenshots and if a user were to have modified system defaults these screenshots could be saved in another location altogether, rendering even that amount of access insufficient.

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