Fun with Unity8

[Michał Sawicz]

W dniu 18.09.2015 o 06:01, Daniel van Vugt pisze:
> Admittedly that's a bit hackish. So coming in Mir 0.16.0 more of the
> demo clients will understand the '--' option allowing for graceful
> command line augmentation. Although it would be even better if Unity8
> didn't have the requirement.

It doesn't. It requires a way to identify a client to be an app, to read
metadata for it. And that requirement will stay, is generally fulfilled
by ubuntu-app-launch, and --desktop-file-hint was a hack that we should
get rid of soon. I don't think there's anything that relies on it any more.

Not sure what's the status of that, but there were plans in the SDK of a
wrapper launcher that would take care of all those details, so that to
unity8 the client looks like any other. With it, you'd be able to launch
any Mir client wrapped with that, having added some meaningful command
line options.

Another way to identify we were considering is via the apparmor profile
an app is launched under, so that upstart/ubuntu-app-launch could be
taken out of the equation, but we've not confirmed that's our way forward.

-- 
Michał Sawicz <michal.sawicz at canonical.com>
Canonical Ltd.

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