Snaps to invoke external processes

[Didier Roche]

Le 22/11/2016 à 05:43, Spencer Parkin a écrit :
> Well, actually, not unless the customer also installs snapd-xdg-open. 
> Why is it an add-on?  Why not just make it part of snapd?

I gues the idea was to keep it as a separate daemon and have the
implementation which can easily change.
The "why it's not installed by default" was the reason why I CCed
Michael yesterday. I hope he will answer here.

Cheers,
Didier
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 9:09 PM, Spencer Parkin
> <spencertparkin at gmail.com <mailto:spencertparkin at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     It's a miracle!  It works!  Now, for the first time ever, my users
>     (all 0 of them) can reach the help page by clicking on "help" from
>     within the app!  Thanks, Didier.  You're a real pal.
>
>     On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Didier Roche
>     <didrocks at ubuntu.com <mailto:didrocks at ubuntu.com>> wrote:
>
>         Le 21/11/2016 à 04:26, Spencer a écrit :
>         > It's been a few weeks now, but last I heard, the snapcraft
>         team was or did a sprint to address current limitations snaps
>         have regarding the invocation of external processes. 
>         Specifically, it would be nice to launch the user's default
>         browser with a URL, or let a snap invoke another instance of
>         itself.  What's the status on this?
>         >
>         Hey Spencer,
>
>         Default browser should works for some months already if your
>         application
>         (or toolkit, like Qt does) invoke the xdg-open to open the
>         url. This is
>         then transmitted via dbus to an external process on your
>         classic system
>         which then issues the real xdg-open command.
>         For the others, there are been indeed multiple discussions on
>         this at
>         multiple places (here, on the bug report…), but no action or firm
>         decision. I'm CCing Gustavo as he was the one against a more
>         generic
>         intermediate solutions.
>
>         Cheers,
>         Didier
>
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