[maemo-developers] home plugin osso initialization

[From: Bill Filler]

Johan,
Thank you for the information. Sounds like the preferred way is to  
call osso_initialize directly, but it is good to know the other way  
as well. Thanks again.

Bill

On Sep 15, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Johan Bilien wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 14, 2007, Bill Filler wrote:
>> I've written a home plugin that wants to use libosso calls. Does it
>> need to explicitly initialize osso (via osso_initialize()) or should
>> it use the osso_context_t from hd-desktop or hd-wm? If the later, how
>> does it get the osso context? Thanks for any help.
>
> There is no API for this as the plugins used in maemo usually call
> osso_initialize themselves. Once your plugin is added to the home area
> you could access the osso_context_t used by home with
>
> window = gtk_widget_get_toplevel (your_applet);
> g_object_get (window,
>               "osso-context", &osso_context,
>               NULL);
>
> but it's a bit hackish.
> -- 
> Johan Bilien
> <jobi at via.ecp.fr>