xdg-app for MOSS

[Sriram Ramkrishna]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:43 AM Alexander Larsson <alexl at redhat.com> wrote:

> On ons, 2015-10-28 at 15:05 +0530, Pranav Kant wrote:
> > Yeah, he is looking into it. I was just assigned to gather
> > information about it. So, I thought I should drop an email here. :)
>
>
> Ah, cool.
>
> Anyway, there are various things that I think would be interesting to
> mozilla:
>
> * A single upstream binary build for all distributions
> * A safe atomic upgrade model.
>   You can safely run automatic updates of an xdg-app while it is
>   running without affecting the running instance, without needing to
>   do all the hoops that e.g. chrome does to handle this.
> * Use of portals to do desktop integration can allow running firefox
>   to run sandboxed, yet still be integrated with the desktop and other
>   apps.
>
>
This is great stuff, we can probably form some messaging around this.  I
need to find a mozilla sponsor at the moment.  I have a couple people I can
ask, before we go too far afield.

sri


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