[maemo-developers] putting application in the extras menu

[From: Henning Heinold]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:48:38PM -0700, Mrukant Popat wrote:
> Dear community,
> 
> I have an application written for N810. This application is pre pre 
> alpha and will take a lot more time to come to market.
> But I have to demo this app to other people. Now I m supposed to give 
> the N810 tablet to a person who is not expected to run it from terminal 
> inside N810.
> Is it possible to create an icon in the extras section or some other 
> section for this application without making the application available to 
> whole community at present?
> 
> 
> regards,
> Mrukant Popat
> 
> Technology Consultant
> Pioneer Electronics
> Silicon Valley, US

Hm,

this a FAQ item and the answer is in the manual
http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/node13.html#SECTION001328000000000000000

You have to provide a valid applicationname.desktop file. Normaly they
are stored under /usr/share/application, but for maemo I suggest store it
like the other apps under /usr/share/application/hildon .

If your app is not a gtk-hildon app you have to set the WM_CLASS right.
You can see which name is used for WM_CLASS when you execute the xprop
programm from x-debug-tools package and tap on your app.

Bye Henning