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[Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/04/2013 09:02 AM, Michael Spencer wrote:
> Sorry, I meant on the desktop.
> 

Well, some work is planned for click apps on the desktop to enable developers to
more easily test their apps on the desktop form factor-- but keep in mind click
on the desktop is not supported or recommended for general use because appstore
apps do not undergo a security audit and application confinement for Ubuntu
appstore apps does not (currently) cover limitations in X. I suggest you work
with the Ubuntu community team to see what is planned for when and how you may
be able to contribute there.

> 
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:01 AM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 11/04/2013 07:41 AM, Michael Spencer wrote:
>     > On 11/4/13, 6:15 AM, James Tait wrote:
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>     >>
>     >> Hi all,
>     >>
>     >> During the course of developing, testing and supporting the various
>     >> components of the Click App Store, I've had cause on numerous
>     >> occasions to verify that a Click Package is downloadable. Obviously
>     >> we can do this using a handset, but sometimes, for whatever reason,
>     >> this isn't possible. But Click downloads require an OAuth-signed
>     >> request, and it's a pain having to set this up every time.
>     >>
>     >> To aid in this, I hacked together a little script so that I can very
>     >> easily download Click Packages from the command line on my dev
>     >> machine. It takes care of the SSO login and the OAuth stuff, and
>     >> saves your details in a read-only file in your XDG config directory
>     >> (~/.config by default) so subsequent runs only need your e-mail
>     >> address and a package name. The downloaded file will be saved in your
>     >> home directory.
>     >>
>     >> It currently makes an assumption about where to find the package
>     >> details, and isn't tested or particularly well structured, but I
>     >> thought it might already be useful for others, so I dropped it on
>     >> Launchpad[0]. As time allows I hope to scrub it up a bit and add
>     >> other scripts that I find myself using frequently.
>     >>
>     >> Cheers,
>     >>
>     >> JT
>     >
>     > Thanks for publishing this, it looks like it will be useful for my app
>     that I am
>     > writing to view and install Click apps from the app store.
>     >
>     Note, application confinement blocks access to installing click apps by other
>     click apps. This would of course work fine if you only use this app
>     privately or
>     integrate it into the Ubuntu image (and therefore it is unconfined).
> 
> 
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