[maemo-developers] top_application ???

[From: Andrew Zabolotny]

Hello!

I'm adapting an application for the Maemo platform, and got some
problems.

The .desktop file of the application contains the following lines:

X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
X-Osso-Service=org.maemo.myapp

Also I put a /usr/share/dbus-1/services/myapp.service file which
contains:

[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.maemo.myapp
Exec=/usr/bin/myapp

Now, when I start my application from the menu, first a small popup
window saying "MyApp - starting" appears, and after a few seconds a new
popup appears saying "top_application". I found this is most likely to
come from libhildonwm, but I don't quite understand what it means and
how I can avoid it. When I start the app from command line, it works
fine.

Another problem is with the file manager. I would like to have my app
associated with certain MIME types and have it launched automatically
when I double click on a file in file manager. For this I have added a
line to the desktop file, something like this:

MimeType=application/x-something;application/x-somethingelse;

I do update-desktop-database in my postinstall script, so
that /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache gets updated (and it indeed
contains references to my application).

However, I still can't get file manager to launch my app when I click
on these files, and they show a blank icon. Is there some possibility
to show a custom icon for these file types?

Also I've read somewhere that filemanager has an API over the D-BUS...
is it documented somewhere?

-- 
Andrew
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