[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] launching maemo applications with parameters

[From: Osvaldo Santana]

On 6/18/06, Daniel Greenblatt <dan.greenblatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello -
>
> I'm developing an application for the 770 using Python (1.1), and I can't
> figure out how to launch any of the native Maemo applications (web
> browser, image viewer) with parameters (e.g. the name of a file to
> open) from my code. I'm specifically interested in launching
> image-viewer to display a particular image file. Making a system call
> to /usr/bin/image-viewer  does indeed launch the image viewer, but it
> doesn't seem
> possible to provide it with parameters.
>
> I know that PyMaemo 2.0 will have DBus support, and this will enable
> me to achieve this, but in the meantime, does anyone know how to get
> the same effect from the command line ?

Hi Daniel,

I think that is impossible to call an application via 'system()' call.
The main problem is: probably the task-navigator will try to kill an
unregistered application. Libosso register the application when we
call osso_rpc_run() function.

Unfortunately libosso bindings for Python doesn't build on SDK1.x
because it was created for the new libosso version available in SDK2.

Thanks,
Osvaldo

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