Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-10-01 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext Thomas Waelti wrote: Thank you very much for your valuable feedback! You need to provide D-BUS service only if: - You handle D-BUS messages in general (e.g. because you don't want the caller of your application to care about whether your program is already running or not) - You

Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas D. Waelti
Thank you very much for your valuable feedback! You need to provide D-BUS service only if: - You handle D-BUS messages in general (e.g. because you don't want the caller of your application to care about whether your program is already running or not) - You want to prevent user from

Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext David Hazel wrote: write a new application to maemo 3.x instructions. Also, I'm unsure whether I'm supposed to set up a Makefile.am script to ensure that something gets done with the .desktop and .service files. Do these get automatically recognised and dealt with, or do I have to

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
Hi Eero, Thanks for that suggestion. I'll give it a try and see what it tells me. David Hazel -Original Message- From: Eero Tamminen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2007 17:00 To: ext David Hazel Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Making my app. appear

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
i suggest you convert the energy you put in writing those long emails into reading carefully So you'd prefer me not to explain my problem as clearly and fully as possible? That'll help a lot, won't it? if you are unsure about the directory structure and you have no real reason to change it,

Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, ext David Hazel wrote: Hi Eero, Thanks for that suggestion. I'll give it a try and see what it tells me. What to do with the .desktop file seems to be mentioned here: http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/3-x/creating_a_debian_package.html But I think the howto here (which

Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread Gregory 'guardian' Pakosz
So you'd prefer me not to explain my problem as clearly and fully as possible? That'll help a lot, won't it? break your question into pieces, it will definitely encourage people reading and answering :) And by the occasional Nokia person, with presumably a commercial interest in making

Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas D. Waelti
I can really feel with David, as I encountered exactly the same issues when developing mClock during the last few weeks. While the N800 motivated me enough to plunge into Linux development, some issues around the Hildon Dekstop and D-Bus were indeed extremely frustrating. The problem I'm

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
Hazel -Original Message- From: Thomas Waelti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2007 19:02 To: Gregory 'guardian' Pakosz; David Hazel Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu I can really feel with David, as I encountered exactly

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
So you'd prefer me not to explain my problem as clearly and fully as possible? That'll help a lot, won't it? break your question into pieces, it will definitely encourage people reading and answering :) I've tried that. It doesn't work. At best, I get an answer to the first question in the

RE: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

2007-09-25 Thread David Hazel
to be done (as opposed to just example code), I've no idea what I would need to put in one. -Original Message- From: Eero Tamminen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 September 2007 18:04 To: ext David Hazel Cc: maemo-developers@maemo.org Subject: Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator