[maemo-developers] passing arguments to hildon applications

[From: Andrew Daviel]

On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, josh.soref at nokia.com wrote:

>>> Someone should write a dbus wrapper thing....
>>
>> I found one (Eero told me how to make it work).
>
> Yeah, I was hoping someone would include the name (I know it's in the
> archives), as someone else asked me about it for some other purpose
> yesterday.

I realize now that the wrapper I have is not what I need for this. It's 
still useful - lets one run the PDF viewer or media player from the 
command line, e.g. to iterate through all movies in a directory without 
crafting a playlist. Eero said it needed to wait a bit before exiting; I 
added a sleep() and made a Debian package.

  Author: Tuomas Kulve
  Source: https://bugs.maemo.org/attachment.cgi?id=687
  Binary: 
http://andrew.triumf.ca/N810/repository/dists/chinook/user/binary-armel/mime-open.deb

I'm still stuck trying to pass a file to a hildonized application. I 
looked on the maemo tutorial and found how to update the MIME registry, 
and built maemopad, so I can select a file with type foo/bar in the file 
manager and have maemopad start. But like mplayer it won't open the file. 
I guess it doesn't have the hooks. I was previously able to hook foo/bar 
to "notes" in /etc/gnome/defaults.list
and download a foo/bar file in the browser - that worked OK.
Do you happen to know of an example using this launch hook ? I had hoped
that maemopad would have it.

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