On Wed, 2015-05-27 at 11:50 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > Packaging an application also requires some changes other than the > relocatability itself. First of all, all "exported" files from an > application (such as icons, desktop files, dbus service files, or > other files that are read from outside the app itself) must have the > application id (which is a dbus/java-style reverse dns name) as a > filename prefix. This is both for avoiding conflicts, and for > security > reasons, see [4]. However, it wouldn't necessarily be a problem if we > just did such changes on the regular fedora packages too, as a > regular > fedora packaging policy. > > One issue is that as third party packagers of applications we should > not use the "official" app ids for our builds, as they would conflict > with upstream doing their own release. So, our package of > org.gnome.gedit should probably be called org.fedoraproject.gedit, > which may require some minor tweaks to the build (for instance, this > affects the dbus name the app uses for dbus activated desktop files, > as well as the name of the desktop file itself). Thanks for sharing your work! It's definitely very interesting how a Fedora runtime can be used to bootstrap the process of getting to a place where applications are bundled and sandboxed. Is changing the app-id right? To me, app IDs correspond to application identity. If a user has a Fedora version of GEdit installed, and then installs a newer version of GEdit from upstream, I would expect: - Only one GEdit icon appears in the list of applications - If the user marked GEdit as a favorite, the favorite icon retargets to the newer installed version By using the name GEdit and the GEdit icon, Fedora has already made the claim *to the user* that what it packaged is GEdit - having a different application ID under the hood can only lead to confusion. - Owen (Changing the application ID is a bit like the fedora- vendor prefix we were adding to desktop files, which was a big pain to unwind) -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
