Use flatpak-spawn to run Google Chrome #13
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| "runtime": "org.freedesktop.Platform", | |||
| "runtime-version": "1.6", | |||
| "sdk": "org.freedesktop.Sdk", | |||
| "command": "/app/bin/eos-google-chrome-app", | |||
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The launcher in the OS depends on this entry point existing, so I don't think we should change it (or we provide a compat symlink) - https://github.com/endlessm/eos-browser-tools/blob/master/chrome-helper/eos-google-chrome.py#L86
This means the script needs to handle two things - either running inside the flatpak and doing the spawn trick, or outside and maybe just re-execing itself with flatpak, for consistency (and no need to do the pipe that keeps the flatpak alive etc).
To rely on the regular launch behaviour in the OS, we can use an eufi "upgrade" method in the OS so that we can drop the launcher hacks, but we can't sequence the upgrade the other way (prevent an older OS getting a new Flatpak).
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My idea for the transition was that the "self-contained" version of the app was only ever hosted on Flathub, not on eos-apps. (In that sense this PR is more of a RFC than something to merge right away here.)
So older OS would never get this new one and we would not worry about keeping the legacy launcher; in the same OS update we would remove all the launcher stuff and add the migration to the Flathub version.
Is that possible?
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| #!/bin/bash | |||
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It always starts with a simple/innocent shell script... and then... :P Maybe it's fine. I would keep a low threshold for doing a Python ver if the complexity creeps up.
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| chrome_flatpak_dir=`flatpak-spawn --host flatpak info -l com.google.Chrome` | ||
| chrome_binary=${chrome_flatpak_dir}/files/extra/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome | ||
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| exec flatpak-spawn --host --env=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${chrome_flatpak_dir}/files/lib ${chrome_binary} |
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We should do some $* or we'll break the methods in the desktop file, or other scripts that rely on passing arguments in to the browser.
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Yes, I had this in a later version of the patch. Pushed here now.
This allows us to make a self-contained extra-data flatpak that does not need to rely on anything on the host to work.
Newer Chrome versions do not seem to use these.
Instead of importing a copy here.
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This is needed to run on Fedora Silverblue.
We need those for the appinfo integration. We export all the other sizes from the downloaded deb package.
This allows us to make a self-contained extra-data flatpak that does
not need to rely on anything on the host to work.
CC @ramcq.
Caveat: I haven't fully tested this yet, but it seems to work well enough for me to open this PR.