On 13-06-17 01:33 AM, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm sending this message both to ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-phone, in the
> hope of reaching the widest interested audience as possible. However,
> please reply to ubuntu-devel only.
>
> I want to bring to your attention the existence of a project which IMHO
> would be very beneficial to Ubuntu (especially on embedded devices, but
> not only): the application launcher originally developed for Maemo/MeeGo.
>
> In short, the main features that applauncherd bring to the system are:
> * faster application startup
> * support for single instance applications
> * splash screen while the application is starting up
>
> The recommended readings are these:
> http://apidocs.meego.com/1.0/mtf/launcher.html
> http://goo.gl/DjGCV
>
> In order to be used in Ubuntu, the software itself needs some porting,
> to remove the dependencies to Qt4, X11, and the AEGIS security framework
> used in MeeGo. Luckily though, these changes have already been made by
> the Mer people, who ported the software to Qt5, removed the AEGIS stuff
> and also simplified a bit the architecture (there isn't an applauncherd
> daemon any more, but the invoked directly talks to the booster
> processes). They also wrote a booster for speeding up the startup of
> applications using QML components, and we could easily modify that to
> use our Ubuntu SDK components instead.
>
> Their code is here:
> https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd
> https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd-qt
> https://github.com/nemomobile/mapplauncherd-booster-qtcomponents
>
> Please let me know what you think of this. IMHO it's a simple and
> brilliant idea, it could be integrated with apparmor and also be used to
> provide sane default callbacks for handling the application lifetime
> state changes.
>
> I've never been directly involved in this project, but given how much I
> dislike NIH, I'd be happy to collaborate with whoever wants to bring
> this to Ubuntu.
Hrm, since this forks instead of doing an exec, it probably doesn't
handle kernel security mechanisms well, such as ASLR. I'm not sure how
we would handle switching AppArmor policies either, or how well our DBus
AppArmor integration would work.
Our current plan is to use Upstart for application launching.
Are there any benchmarks somewhere that show what the performance gains
are on application startup using mapplauncherd?
Marc.
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