[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] osso_initialize()

[From: Tomas Frydrych]

The osso debus service name handling is badly designed and cannot handle
properly quialified names; to get your app working:

* The full name of your service has to be com.nokia.revsh

* the desktop file *must not* contain fully qualified name:
X-Osso-Serivce=revsh

* the service file *must* contain fully qualified name
Name=com.nokia.revsh

* you *must* pass the short name to osso_initialize:
osso_initialize("revsh" ...)

It is silly and ignores the dbus spec on naming, but basically, whatever
you pass into osso_initialize() will always end up prefixed with
'com.nokia.'.

Tomas


Tomi Ollila wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> I've tried to get my "menu-launched" program to work. System keeps
> kill-9:ing my prog since it was not communicating properly using
> D-BUS messages
> 
> Currently I am using the "dbus escape hax" like:
> 
>  if (fork()) { sleep(4); _exit(0); }
>  close(0); close(1); close(2); setsid();
> 
> to get the program working. With that the (escaped) prog doesn't get
> killed but ...
> 
> I've heard that calling osso_initialize() should somehow do the work,
> and I have been trying to search how that actually should be used.
> Thew only source code I've read is from maemopad and that seems not
> to do much more than calling osso_initialize() and saving the return
> value (but not using it elsewhere). The available documentation 
> and usage tips I've found so far have not helped too much -- and there
> are so much uncertainty there that explodes my testing options...
> 
> So far I've tried the following:
> 
> In code:
> 
> (void)osso_initialize("revsh", PRJ_VER, false, null);  /* called after gtk_init() */
> 
> (what should I do with return value ???)
> 
> 
> In revsh.desktop
> 
> [Desktop Entry] 
> Encoding=UTF-8 
> Version=1.0 
> Type=Application 
> Name=RevSH Tunnel
> Exec=/var/lib/install/usr/bin/revsh-tunnel-gui
> X-Osso-Service=invalid.too.revsh
> # FIXME Icon
> Icon=qgn_list_home
> 
> 
> In revsh.service
> 
> [D-BUS Service]
> Name=invalid.too.revsh
> Exec=/var/lib/install/usr/bin/revsh-tunnel-gui
> 
> 
> 
> For maximum portability with minimum #ifdefs the program (currently)
> uses standard gtk widgets, (with the exception of setting "autocap" in text
> entries)...
> 
> The flashed system is Nokia770-51
> 
> 
> Any help is appreciated
> 
> Tomi
> 
> 
> 
> 
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