[Bug 460860] [NEW] old prism apps just stop working after upgrade

[bgruber]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: prism

Apparently, the way prism works changed significantly between the jaunty
and karmic versions, and the launchers that i had made just stopped
working. There was no warning about this, no error message, nothing. I
clicked my old launcher, nothing happened.

The old launchers had an exec line like this:
xulrunner-1.9 /usr/share/prism/application.ini -webapp my.mail at prism.app
While the new one looks like this:
"prism" -override "/home/bgruber/.webapps/my.mail at prism.app/override.ini" -webapp my.mail at prism.app

A separate bug I guess, but "prism --help" doesn't even report -override
or -webapp as a possible options. Nor does the prism man page for that
matter.

Looking more closely, it seems as if the config data has moved from
.prism to .webapp. I would expect there to be, at the very least, a
notation in the changelog, maybe a warning that my old prism apps would
cease to work properly. At best, there should be something to help me
update them.

** Affects: prism (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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old prism apps just stop working after upgrade
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