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Re: Adding "applications" to manifest file

 

On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 22:37 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 03:31:10PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > I'm going to suggest that we add an entry to the root item called
> > "applications" that contains and associative array.  The index to that
> > array is the name of the application and the value is an object of
> > properties describing it.  Only one of which I'm suggesting today,
> > "type" with an only valid value of "desktop".
> 
> Since desktop files are going to need to be associated with hooks
> anyway, and attaching to hooks requires entries in the manifest, please
> hold off on defining anything like this until we've got the hooks
> actually working in practice.  It may turn out to be redundant.


I guess the question I'm being asked is "when can I start a Click
package?"  And to do that I need to know that the "camera-app.desktop"
file is the one to use for "com.ubuntu.apps.camera".

When do you expect to have the hooks working in practice?

Ted

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