[maemo-developers] Integration with hildon desktop

[From: Jeffrey Barish]

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.
-- 
Jeffrey Barish