On 07/18/2013 04:37 PM, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > Another thought that I meant to mention before: this clearly works really well > for the click package/Ubuntu SDK model, where everything is designed to work > with this and all applications are confined, but what about the converged > device > with a non-Ubuntu-designed but otherwise perfectly useful application? Would > it > use standard desktop mimetypes? What about Ubuntu derivatives that may not > share > our application lifecycle, will click packages not work as well there?
Always fun talking to myself (part of the fun of designing a new system I guess)... This should all work fine: a) for apps designed for Ubuntu running in other desktop environments on derivatives, the apps continue to use the Unity API. If the URL handling API is using DBus, the app continues to use this API (likely via a library call so it all happens transparently) regardless of DE and DBus service activation is used for the URL handling service to launch the application (said service could continue to use the upstart job, or could maybe do something different when run under a different DE if that DE wanted to do something different), and it all just works. b) for "non-Ubuntu-designed but otherwise perfectly useful applications" (eg, skype, libreoffice or firefox) on the converged device where they are designed to work within a different security model (ie all applications within a user's session are trusted as opposed to our appstore model where every application is untrusted), they can always use the existing system which will continue to exist and work (note, the existing system still allows for application confinement, just usually with more permissive profiles). The software (or the underlying libraries that the software uses) can always be patched to use the Unity APIs (eg, for content picking or URL handling) when running under Unity/Ubuntu to provide better desktop integration and to make them work within the confinement model for appstore applications. These patches would also be upstreamed. So, in talking myself through this, I'm convinced that though there is work still to be done for the converged device, the design works fine there too. :) -- Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
-- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
