Re: flatpak app launch script

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On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 10:05 +0100, Martin Stransky wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I feel that launching a flatpak app from command line a bit
> regression 
> from rpm packages. It's really different to type:
> 
> $firefox
> 
> or
> 
> $flatpak run org.mozilla.Firefox
Can you pass command line arguments like this ? For example inkscape
can be used not only as a GUI app, but also from the command line to
convert SVG files to PNG and other things. So it would be good if
flatpack can also support that.

> 
> Especially when "flatpak run org.mozilla" carries no information for 
> user, they just want to launch the app and don't care if that's rpm, 
> flatpak, snap or whatever. The ALT+F2 is affected too by this.
> 
> And why to care about about command line anyway? I think we should 
> match it with existing rpm system as much as possible.
> 
> To match flatpak usability with rpm packages, can there be a launch 
> script (say in /var/lib/flatpak/bin to keep it consistent) like we
> have 
> in /usr/bin? I expect that launch script should be owned by flatpak
> app, 
> optional.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Ma.
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