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Re: Detecting Touch apps and X-Ubuntu-Touch

 

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Jamie Strandboge <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 09/28/2015 02:36 PM, Thomas Voß wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Michael Terry
> > <michael.terry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Ideally, we'd have a metadata flag that indicates whether the app is
> >> designed for Touch and thus opts-into Touch lifecycle handling (or
> opts-out,
> >> depending on the default).
> >>
> >
> > One remark: We have to make sure that apps cannot easily use the flag
> > (at least not without a manual reveiw). Otherwise, we would
> > open the door for apps escaping our strict lifecycle.
> >
> As an option, the review tools can be adjusted for this if necessary.
> Please
> file a bug at https://bugs.launchpad.net/click-reviewers-tools/+filebug
> if the
> review tools need to be updated (and how).
>

That check seemingly already exists:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~click-reviewers/click-reviewers-tools/trunk/view/head:/clickreviews/cr_desktop.py#L661

Although, it's worth a scan through all existing clicks in the store to
confirm that nobody sneaked in before that check existed, if it wasn't
always there.

-- 
-mt

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