[maemo-developers] Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu

[From: David Hazel]

Thanks for those pointers, Eero. That was the how-to that I began with when
I first started trying to package up my application. I will go through it
again once I've restructured my application to use the same directory
structure as MaemoPad. The various explanations I've seen about how .desktop
and .service files are to be used might make more sense once I've done that.


David Hazel

PS I like Make files, too. I'd write my own for this, except that the ones
in the examples have been auto-generated and, as you say, are impossible to
follow. Without proper explanations of what is supposed to be done (as
opposed to just example code), I've no idea what I would need to put in one.


-----Original Message-----
From: Eero Tamminen [mailto:eero.tamminen at nokia.com]
Sent: 25 September 2007 18:04
To: ext David Hazel
Cc: maemo-developers at maemo.org
Subject: Re: Making my app. appear on the Navigator menu


Hi,

ext David Hazel wrote:
> Hi Eero,
>
> Thanks for that suggestion. I'll give it a try and see what it tells me.

What to do with the .desktop file seems to be mentioned here:
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/3-x/creating_a_debian_pac
kage.html

But I think the howto here (which links above howto):
http://maemo.org/development/documentation/how-tos/3-x/howto_new_application
_bora.html

should have an example of how to get .desktop file into package
with Autotools.


	- Eero

PS. I'm not a fan of GNU Autotools, I like & use Makefiles
as pkg-config and GNU Make can do 90% of what you actually get
from Autotools (besides autogenerated 100KB configure script
that is larger than rest of your code and much harder to debug).

Debian packaging has also a lot of things one needs to know
but at least they mostly make sense unlike libtools (part of
Autotools)...
</rant>