Re: How to change desktop look?
Spencer, Bob wrote: > Nice screen shot. > Thanks, I'm definitely excited about using UME in my car. Love the touchscreen-friendly interface. :) > Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications (like > your GPS app) should: > 1) install a .desktop file into /usr/share/applications > 2) install an icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor// > (e.g. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/mygps.png) > > If #1 is done correctly, the app should show up in the UI. > If #1 and #2 are done, it will also have the right icon :) > Ok... now, looking at /usr/share/applications , there are a million different things there. Now, for example, on my desktop, there is an icon labeled "Instant Messenger". So, I execute the following in that directory: grep -R "Instant Messenger" * No results. I have noticed the presence of hildon related directories however... $ ls | grep hildon hildon-control-panel hildon-control-panel.desktop hildon-home hildon-marquee hildon-navigator hildon-status-bar Now, I also have "galculator" on my desktop... so I make a copy of the galculator.desktop in /usr/share/applications, and change the "Name" to Galculator II, and name the file galculatorII.desktop. Restart the desktop... no results. So.. I was thinking that /usr/share/applications had something to do with it, but it seems that there is more than meets the eye here. There are also .desktop files in /etc/hildon-desktop ... however, following their contents to wherever always seem to inevitably point to some .so files, which is leading me to believe that its hardcoded somewhere. So. any good thoughts? Before going too much further, I should point out that since I'm running this on what is (for all practical purposes) a normal PC, I have the UME stuff installed side-by-side with ubuntu-desktop (I have GDM launch the desktop for me with autologin enabled). I can't imagine that makes too much of a difference, but I also realize that its not really supported too... Once this gets solved.. we're definitely going to need to put it into the UME Wiki somewhere. > Hope that helps for what you're trying to do. As for playing MP3's > (from your blog), what errors are you facing? The songs needs to go > into ~/media/audio. Yep. It shows up in the UI, but complains about mp3 files in particular. I installed the "normal" mp3 stuff... however, that didn't fix that error. I haven't really looked into fixing this in any serious way yet however, since I'm working on getting roadnav to look/work nicely in UME. It may be related to having ubuntu-mobile installed side-by-side with ubuntu-desktop too.. not sure. Thanks! Dustin -- Innovation is just a problem away -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
RE: Java development
Java can be installed in UME and Java applications can be run inside UME though we haven't outlined a nice way to get the Java menus to be integrated into the top marquee drop-down menu. I think this is just a matter of someone creating a JNI interface to the Hildon libraries to register the menu items and a callback. I'd like to see this happen to open up to Java and help them look somewhat integrated in the UI. Volunteers? As for Andriod, the jury is still out but I hope it happens. Bob Beno, Tal wrote: > Hello all, > > I am very new to Ubuntu Mobile and was just recently going over the > available documentation and work in progress. > I read that Java should be supported but couldn't find any mention of > it concerning apps development and UI. For instance I have seen > Hildon for C and Python and a comment about Flash being TBD, but no > Java. > > I am interested to understand the validity of Java development for > UME and the current available tools. Can someone shed some light over > this matter please? > On a slightly different issue, is there any plan to allow Android > (Java based) applications to run on Ubunto Mobile? > > Thanks, > Tal -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
RE: How to change desktop look?
Nice screen shot. Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications (like your GPS app) should: 1) install a .desktop file into /usr/share/applications 2) install an icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor// (e.g. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/mygps.png) If #1 is done correctly, the app should show up in the UI. If #1 and #2 are done, it will also have the right icon :) Hope that helps for what you're trying to do. As for playing MP3's (from your blog), what errors are you facing? The songs needs to go into ~/media/audio. MP3's should work fine. Are they showing up in the UI and not playing, or not showing up at all? Bob Dustin Spicuzza wrote: > Hey, > > So I can't figure out how to add new applets or remove old applets > from the hildon-desktop display. While it looks very nice (see > http://www.virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2008/04/05/ubuntu-mobile-s creenshot-on-my-carputer/ > for screenshot), I don't really need the non-working apps, since they > don't work. And, I would love to add my GPS application (which is > finally *almost* ready to be used with a touchscreen, thanks to > hildon support in wxWidgets) to the desktop... but can't figure that > out. I get to a deadend when I get to > /usr/share/applications/hildon-home ... which points to a library. > Thanks! > > Dustin > > -- > Innovation is just a problem away -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
Brief breakage: DRM driver update (Beta09)
Hi, Inuka and I will be uploading updated DRM drivers to the mobile PPA later today (UTC 1900 onwards). Since it requires both kernel and userspace components to be available for X to work, there might a breakage during that time. Updating your images during that time should be avoided. Regards, Amit -- Ubuntu-mobile mailing list Ubuntu-mobile@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-mobile
