[maemo-developers] Application not appearing in task manager

[From: Neal H. Walfield]

GPE Starling does not show up in the task manager.  It starts fine but
I cannot figure out why it doesn't appear in the task bar.  The code
(and package) is here: http://linuxtogo.org/~neal/maemo/ .  (The
dependencies can be found at
http://downloads.kernelconcepts.de/maemo2/ .)

Any insights would be appreciated.


Here is the output of dbus-monitor when starting Starling from the
application menu:

  signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination)
  interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged
   string ":1.62"
  string ""
  string ":1.62"
  method call sender=:1.62 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus
  interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=Hello
  signal sender=org.freedesktop.DBus -> dest=(null destination)
  interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=NameOwnerChanged
   string "com.nokia.starling"
  string ""
  string ":1.62"
  method call sender=:1.62 -> dest=org.freedesktop.DBus
  interface=org.freedesktop.DBus; member=RequestName
   string "com.nokia.starling"
  uint32 1

It looks okay but I'm not a d-bus expert.

The perhaps relevant start up code:

  #define APPLICATION_DBUS_SERVICE "starling"
  
  ...
  
  #ifdef IS_HILDON
    osso_context_t *osso_context;
  
    /* Initialize maemo application */
    osso_context = osso_initialize(APPLICATION_DBUS_SERVICE, "1.0",
    TRUE, NULL);
  
    /* Check that initialization was ok */
    if (osso_context == NULL)
      {
        g_critical ("Failed to initialize OSSO context!");
        return OSSO_ERROR;
      }
  #endif
  
  ...

  char *iconname = DATADIR "/pixmaps/bass.png";
  GdkPixbuf *icon = gdk_pixbuf_new_from_file (iconname, &err);
  if (err)
    {
      fprintf (stderr, "Loading %s: %s\n", iconname, err->message);
      g_error_free (err);
    }
  else
    gtk_window_set_default_icon (icon);



/usr/share/applications/hildon/starling.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=Audio player
Comment=Starling
Exec=/usr/bin/starling
Terminal=false
Icon=bass
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-Osso-Service=starling
StartupWMClass=starling


/usr/share/dbus-1/services/com.nokia.starling.service:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=com.nokia.starling
Exec=/usr/bin/starling