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Re: Adding "applications" to manifest file

 

On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 12:15:12AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 23:14 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 04:42:25PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:
> > > When do you expect to have the hooks working in practice?
> > 
> > I don't think I can do it without examples to work on; that's just how
> > my brain works.  So it would really help if you could give me your side
> > of the hook: as close as possible to a script to take a desktop file as
> > we'd find in an app and install it in the desired way in a real Ubuntu
> > Touch system so that it will appear as a launchable app.  If it has gaps
> > where you need to know about some feature of click before you can write
> > them, that's fine, but I need to know the kinds of parameters I need to
> > support in hooks before I can implement them properly, and the ability
> > to experiment would be very helpful.
> 
> I didn't realize that you were expecting me to provide that hook.  I
> don't have time budgeted for that right now, I'll raise that up the
> chain and try to find the time for me (or perhaps someone else).

OK, I misunderstood then.  This is a demo blocker; would you have time
to at least give me a detailed description of where files have to go and
what they need to contain, and whether this works on today's image or is
blocked on some other features?  A link would be fine if you've already
described this somewhere and I missed it.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxx]


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