[maemo-developers] Is it possible to make a "well-behaved" pyGame app with maemo-python ?

Tue Nov 27 15:08:17 EET 2007

Hi,

ext Fred Pacquier wrote:
> By "well-behaved" I mean an app which appears as an icon in the taskbar 
> like a proper Hildon app.
> 
> I have copied and modified .desktop and .service files of such apps made 
> with PyGTK, but pyGame seems different. If the .desktop doesn't 
> reference an osso service, the app starts from the menu, but there is no 
> icon in the taskbar (and no "xx is starting" during launch). If it does, 
> the  "xx is starting" message appears for some time, but the app never 
> starts.
> 
> Is it possible to get this right ? If so, is there a Howto somewhere ?

For SDL (pygame), see this old bug:
	https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24#c11

As to D-BUS services, if they don't register themselves after starting,
D-BUS will kill them (assuming that the startup failed).

	- Eero