[maemo-developers] Debugging Desktop Applets in Python

[From: Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Mike Jipping wrote:
> I'm writing a desktop applet in Python.
> 
> Debugging this thing is incredibly hard.  I can't do it in Scratchbox,
> because the hildon desktop bindings are not compiled for it.  Editing
> is then done on the device.  I thought this would be OK and that the
> cycle of unselecting/code change/selecting the applet would run the new
> code changes. But...the system seems to cache the code so that the
> unselect/select always invokes the same code.  And who knows where
> even the simple print or logging statements go...

If you want to see output from maemo-launched applications on the
device, remove the --quit option from maemo-launcher 
/etc/init.d/maemo-launcher init script.


	- Eero