Fun with Unity8

[Daniel van Vugt]

Sounds like an improvement, thanks. In the long term though, I think you 
will find power users (and even some apps) want to launch non-Qt apps by 
simply executing them. Eventually (as with any other desktop OS) they 
will need to /just work/. So any wrapper will need to go away.


On 18/09/15 15:01, Michał Sawicz wrote:
> 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.
>