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[Roberto Alsina <roberto.alsina@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Ted Gould <ted@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 16:26 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
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> On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 09:58:32AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote:> For just prototyping something up there are a set of tools in> upstart-app-launch-tools that can be nicely used with shell scripts.> Assuming you have that installed you can do something like:> > >         $ upstart-app-launch gedit>         $ upstart-app-list >         gedit>         $ upstart-app-pid gedit>         31940
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> Great, thanks.  That's nice.  Looks like we aren't yet launching apps
> this way from Unity; do you know when that's due to happen?
>
>  Unity will switch with the transition to Mir, which adds a lot more
> application management functionality.  The last "when" I heard was end of
> August.  If you want, there are PPAs that can switch your device over to
> that build.  Though they didn't work on my Galaxy Nexus last I tried.
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>
Does this mean we can't do app uninstalls and upgrades until the devices
switch to Mir?
That is a very unexpected dependency there.