Comment 2 for bug 1263182

This is currently waiting on gir bindings to the upstart app launch libary.
Tedg is building these for us.

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:23 PM, Thomi Richards
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> ** Changed in: autopilot
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Thomi Richards (thomir)
>
> ** Changed in: autopilot
> Status: Confirmed => In Progress
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1263182
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> Title:
> Use upstart/upstart-app-launch to launch and monitor application under
> test
>
> Status in Autopilot:
> In Progress
> Status in The Sevilerow project:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> On the phone and tablet, all apps are launched and managed by the
> upstart-app-launch utility, which is based on upstart.
>
> This utility ensures that each application has a correct environment
> to run in, configures application confinement and communicates the
> launch to shell so shell knows not to reject a rogue application.
> Since users are using this to launch apps, I think autopilot should do
> so too.
>
> Instead the hacky solution autopilot is relying on is the
> --desktop_file_hint parameter, which is error prone:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-mir/+bug/1262982
> and I have a goal to remove support for that parameter entirely.
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Thomi Richards
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