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

[From: Tomi Ollila]

Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila at guru.guru-group.fi> writes:

> Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 12:09:34AM +0200, Tomi Ollila wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for this tip. I have not tested it yet, but:
>
> $ cat applications/hildon/revsh-tunnel-gui.desktop | tr ' ' +
> [Desktop+Entry]+
> Encoding=UTF-8+
> Version=1.0+
> Type=Application+
...
>
> Let's hope it works!

And it did --- TRAILING WHITESPACE DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE !!!

After whitespace removal I have icon on extras menu. When I try to launch
my program there nothing happens (in adition to system window telling
running my program). There is probably some magic involved and I just have
to make my program more compliant. Now that is easy as I do not have
to wonder this problem anymore...
Launching from XTerm also gives the icon to the left toolbar so
this part is now OK too.

Thanks a lot
kiittää ja kumartaa
tackar och pockar

Maemo Tutorial should be updated to emphasize this fact (i.e.
trailing whitespace in .desktop (and .service?) file breaks it
so that not more developers get hang with this problem for several
hours (not to mention days!!!)


Tomi







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