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Re: Click apps on Desktop before full convergence

 

On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 16:04 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote:

> I got the feeling that it might make sense to think about this and maybe
> make the conscious decision to not support this. There are a few reasons
> which might make this attractive:
> 
>  - security issues regarding X mitigation


It seems like the only security issues are those that would say we
shouldn't ship Unity 7 at all :-)  So supporting Click there doesn't add
or subtract.


>  - work supporting click packages in a unity 7 scope


The scope backends are shared between Unity 7 and 8.  So there shouldn't
be additional work required to support Unity 7.


> What's your take on this? Does anyone have click-packages-on-the-Desktop
> as a strict requirement? Does anyone feel strongly about supporting this
> (apart from a testing standpoint for app developers)?


I think that we should support Ubuntu as a converged platform.

Ted

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