[maemo-developers] [Python] How to get a Desktop Widget to appear in "Add Widget" list

[From: Bruno Araujo]

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:17 PM, Brent Chiodo <bchiodo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am having a difficult time getting my python-based Desktop Widget to
> appear in the "Add Widget" list. If I copy my widget's main .py and
> .desktop files to the correct directories, my widget will just appear
> on the desktop after I restart Hildon Desktop. My widget works fine
> when I do this, but will never appear in that list. if I close my
> widget, there is no way to reopen it without restarting Hildon
> Desktop.
>
> I installed "example-desktop-widget" (which is written in C) from the
> repository and it behaves as you would expect. I even looked at it's
> .desktop file to see if there was something I was leaving out of mine,
> but they were identical in structure.
>
> I also followed the steps on
> http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/HildonDesktop exactly, trying to see if
> I cold get that to appear in the list, and it didn't.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
>
> Brent Chiodo
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Could you file a bug about this problem? We can track this issue more easily
this way.

Regards,

-- 
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Bruno Araújo, MSc
openBossa Labs - Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia
Manaus, Brazil

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -
Arthur C. Clarke
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