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[Zoltán Balogh <zoltan.balogh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

In my view  Tyler Hicks had explained [1], [2], [3] the security issues 
perefctly why we can not take the mapplauncher in use in its present 
implementation.

The problem actually was fairly simple... fork() is not good but exec() 
is safe.

So with Zeller Benjamin we have created a version of the mapplauncher 
[4] what is doing the right thing. The next step is to profile and 
document the performance impact of this solution on the application 
startup times.

Next week you will hear more about that. If the results are promising 
then we can discuss about how to proceed. If not :) then we can say that 
we have properly investigated this possibility.

cheers,

bzoltan

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg14542.html
[2] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg14531.html
[3] https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-phone/msg14511.html
[4] 
https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-sdk-team/+archive/ubuntu/staging/+packages?field.name_filter=applauncher

On 07/08/15 00:33, Omer Akram wrote:
> Hey!
>
> I remember you started a thread[1] a while ago, re: app launch time. 
> Did you investigate that time into this? Perhaps that mechanism could 
> be adapted to current Ubuntu ?
>
> [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-June/037303.html
>
> On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Alberto Mardegan 
> <alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     On 08/02/2015 10:03 AM, Richard Somlói wrote:
>     > I think the most annoying thing about the the slowness of
>     applications
>     > is the dialer application startup speed. It takes more then 3
>     seconds,
>     > this is very annoying, when you want to make an urgent call.
>
>     In the Nokia N9, the dialer application was always running, but its
>     visibility was set to "hidden" when the user had not explicitly
>     started it.
>     I wonder if we should take a similar approach for Ubuntu, too.
>
>     Ciao,
>       Alberto
>
>
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