[maemo-developers] Integration with hildon desktop

[From: Daniel Martin Yerga]

Hi.

----- Original message -----
Jun Xu wrote:

> To my knowledge, there are many parameters to determine what to show in
> the navigator bar. So I guess that you can try the parameters
> "StartupWMClass" in your desktop file. To know more info about desktop's
> parameters file see:
>
http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-0.9.4.html
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org
> [mailto:maemo-developers-bounces at maemo.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Barish
> Sent: 2008?9?27? 3:52 To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> Subject: Integration with hildon desktop
>
> After much fiddling, I managed to integrate my application in the hildon
> desktop.  It appears in the Extras menu along with its logo.  I get the
> loading message when it's starting, and then it runs.  However, when it's
> running, I get the default icon in the task navigator bar.  Any idea what
> I forgot to do?

Thanks for the suggestion.  I didn't see anything in that document that
looked relevant, but perhaps I just missed it.  I really don't understand
why the Icon parameter isn't responsible for setting the icon in the
navigator bar.

I wish that Nokia had a document summarizing the steps for integrating an
application into the desktop.  The required information seems to be buried
in many unrelated documents.

------ End of Original Message ----------

While I don't know as it's your .desktop file, I always add everyone of this parameters to .desktop files of my apps, perhaps some of them are useful in your case:

Icon=name of the icon without the suffix
X-Icon-path=/usr/share/icons
X-Window-Icon=again the name of the icon without the suffix

Note, you should have a 26x26 icon in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/26x26/hildon/, but I think this step is in the documentation.
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