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[Charles Kerr <charles.kerr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: upstart-app-launch
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Ted Gould (ted)

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Title:
  Pain determining exact app id to launch apps manually

Status in Upstart Application Launcher:
  New

Bug description:
  So I want to launch the gallery via command line using upstart-app-
  launch. This is what I had to do:

         phablet@mako:~$ upstart-app-launch com.ubuntu.gallery
         ** (process:3302): WARNING **: Unable to find keyfile for application 'com.ubuntu.gallery'

  Me: A warning? That command should fail, as it fails to launch the
  app. I had hoped UAL would be clever and just find the appId with that
  rdns string at the start, but no.

  
         phablet@mako:~$ upstart-app-launch com.ubuntu.gallery_gallery
         ** (process:3338): WARNING **: Unable to find keyfile for application 'com.ubuntu.gallery_gallery'

  Me: I looked around and saw other app Ids have this bit appended, gave
  it a shot. No idea what use that piece is.

  Ok instead, have to hunt for exact version string to generate the
  exact app id myself.

         phablet@mako:~$ ls /usr/share/click/preinstalled/com.ubuntu.gallery/
         2.9.1.952  current

  
         phablet@mako:~$ upstart-app-launch com.ubuntu.gallery_gallery_current
         ** (process:3511): WARNING **: Unable to find keyfile for application 'com.ubuntu.gallery_gallery_current'

  Me: wishful thinking...

  
  phablet@mako:~$ upstart-app-launch com.ubuntu.gallery_gallery_2.9.1.952

  Finally that worked.

  
  Guys, this is horrible!
         upstart-app-launch com.ubuntu.gallery
  should be enough.

         upstart-app-launch gallery
  would be even better.

  The specific details of the app id syntax should be transparent to the
  user.

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