Hello,
1. What do you think about options "--xpk ${xpk}" and "--conf ${json}" (like
option "--jar" in java for packaged applications)?
2. Is application management that useless for desktop build? Id is id. Maybe
desktop installation should integrate somehow with desktop environment on
host, like
- creating wrapper script for applications which run xwalk-launcher with
right id (for user: it is some executable, just run it),
- create configuration files for application to be run from icon on
desktop.
Just ideas.
Regards,
Tomasz Iwanek
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From: Crosswalk-dev
[mailto:crosswalk-dev-boun...@lists.crosswalk-project.org] On Behalf Of
Pozdnyakov, Mikhail
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:30 AM
To: crosswalk-dev@lists.crosswalk-project.org
Subject: [Crosswalk-dev] [Intent to implement] Better user experience on
desktop
Hi there,
At the moment the Crosswalk desktop user should do the following steps to
run an xwalk application (.xpk or .wgt)
1) "install" it using xwalkctl (means recording it application storage)
2) obtain the generated app_id
3) finally run the app via id
Apparently this logic was designed for Tizen where Crosswalk is used as the
platform web-runtime.
This scenario however looks really weird on desktop as it contains
home-brewed application management (which is apart from the platform
application management on desktop) and forces the User to be aware of some
generated app id.
I propose us to drop this scenario on desktop and support the following
scenarios there:
1) Run arbitrary URL (this is already done) -> xwalk http://someurl.com
2) Run the unpacked application -> xwalk local/path/to/manifest.json At the
moment Crosswalk can run the unpacked app from the path to *the directory
containing manifest.json* I propose to use instead path to the manifest
file.
3) Run packed application -> xwalk path/to/my_app.xpk This is not supported
now. Crosswalk could unpack the app to a temporary directory and erase it
after the execution.
Doing this also allows us to move all the application storage & application
management code to 'tizen' folder and remove the unnecessary abstraction
code.
This should significantly simplify our code in 'application' folder.
BR,
Mikhail
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