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

[From: Johan Bilien]

Ralph Giles wrote:
>
> 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.
>   

/etc/others-menu/ is not used in IT-2006 and Sardine. Task Navigator 
reads all the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications/hildon, and 
places them according to the menu structure defined in 
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu or ~/.osso/menus/applications.menu.