[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Developing for IT2006

[From: Marius Vollmer]

"ext Luca Donaggio" <donaggio at gmail.com> writes:

> - After installing, the Application Manager on real device put my
> application into the Extras menu folder; this is what I wanted,
> except that an Extras folder already existed on my system and the
> app. Manager duplicated it!

Hmm.  How did the first "Extras" menu came into existence?  Did you
create it manually?

The "Extras" menu is kind of special and the Task navigator might get
confused when you create a menu named "Extras" yourself.  One way to
get back to one "Extras" menu, I think, is to move all entries into
the menu that contains the entry added by the Application manager and
then to delete the other, now empty menu.

> - My app. doesn't start at all from the task manager, despite having
> .desktop and .service in the usual places and even doing proper
> osso_initialize on startup.

The location of the .service files changed from IT 2005 to IT 2006
(because of a change in D-BUS): they are now in
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/.

The Task navigator is unfortunately quite silent about what is going
on behind the scenes, but you should get some output when running it
in Scratchbox.