[maemo-developers] Proper documentation (was Re: [maemo-developers] HildonProgram input to gtk_widget_show()?)

[From: Johan Bilien]

Mike Frantzen wrote:
>> And like on other Linux Desktops, you need to have a .desktop
>> file so that your program appears in the menus.
>>     
>
> And they're much more mature that what we have on the N770.  There was
> the recent thread about trailing whitespace being invalid in a .desktop
> file.  If you edit the .desktop file on the N770 and use word completion
> then it will leave trailing whitespace...
>   
A bit offtopic but trailing spaces in .desktop are a problem in the 
mature Linux Desktop  GNOME. Add a space after the Type= value and your 
application disappears from the GNOME menu, just as it does on the 
Hildon Navigator menu :).

Johan.