[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Troubleshooting .desktop and .service files

[From: Ralph Giles]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:09:34AM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:

> I'm trying to (once again) get my .desktop (and .service) files
> do the things they're supposed to do -- add icon to extras menu
> and when program is running, show it's icon on task navigator,
> but with no luck. When I run my program from xterm and accidentally
> hide it with home button the window is gone without any change to
> get it back to screen.

You don't seem to be suffering from the bug I discovered doing this last 
week. https://maemo.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=859 but it might be 
something similar.

> I remember fighting with this when developed using maemo 1.0 software,
> now the problem reappeared, and seems to be stickier than that last time.

In 2.1, non-com.nokia dbus service names seem to work. There's also 
something funny going on with the extras menu; there are things in my 
scratchbox's extras menu that don't have entried in /etc/others-menu/

Other than that, I don't see what's wrong. It's my understanding that 
task manager will kill your application if you don't osso_initialize
and install a handler, but I agree that has to be independent of getting 
the menu item to show up in the first place.

 -r