Danny,
been there and this works for me:
Application Desktop file
* The X-Osso-Service line must not contain a fully qualified name,
you want something like
X-Osso-Service=myapp
* Must include at least one of the Exec or StartupWMClass lines,
otherwise there will be no icon in the Task Navigator panel for your
application.
Application Service file
* Call your service com.nokia.myapp where myapp is whatever you put
into the X-Osso-Service line in the desktop file:
Name=com.nokia.myapp
Tomas
Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Oookay...
>
> I just spent four hours trying to find out how
> to integrate an application into the maemo
> environment.
>
> Now that was unneccesary and I'm giving up
> for now, hoping for help.
>
> I ported a nice little program to maemo
> (see http://www.scratchpost.org/nokia-770/packages/ ),
> and it worked fine, when started from xterm.
>
> When I tried to start by using the application
> menu, however, my osso_initialize call
> failed.
>
> By now I tried every single one of the ~ 43000 (j/k)
> combinations that could be valid in the
> - desktop file
> - service file content
> - service file name
> - osso_initialize call name
> - osso_initialize call version
> - osso_initialize call activation
>
> And it just doesn't work.
>
> For now I commented out the osso parts and now it
> can be launched from the menu. :)
>
> However, stangely enough, now the application icon
> of the menu entry is gone. It was there before I
> commented out the service stuff. I didn't comment
> out "Icon=", it's still there.
>
> Helppp :)
>
> And before I don't forget, a few nitpickings about the
> tutorial:
>
> -
> On
> http://www.maemo.org/platform/docs/tutorials/Maemo_tutorial.html#LibOSSO-library
> there is no mention how the include file needed
> for libosso is called (until waaaay down).
>
> - the osso_initialize example uses a partial
> dbus service name only, and isn't the
> third parameter deprecated by now?
>
> - I sure hope the weird voodoo done by
> osso_initialize (magically prefixing
> "com.nokia.") is already gone? If not, it's
> not mentioned.
>
> - And the example doesn't use "com.nokia",
> but "org.maemo". Which would make it break in
> mysterious ways.
>
> - the valid chars in the dbus service name are not
> mentioned (and there is no NO DASHES warning)
>
> - "Icon – Name of icon that represents this application"
> (in tutorial) says:
> "Format of the file should be PNG and the prefix (.png)
> should not be defined."
>
> That is probably a suffix, and my voodoo detector goes
> off again.
> Don't ever do that. The file is called how it is called,
> no adding/removing stuff to *cough* "simplify" it please.
>
> Phiew... now I need sleep. Good night :)
>
> cheers,
> Danny
>
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