[maemo-developers] How to create an icon on desktop on N900 and link my binary to that

[From: praveen koduru]

I am trying to do a test by creating an icon, the requirement is very
simple. I need to open a browser and launch "google.com" through DBUS-SEND
command. The dbus-send command in kept in a shell script(run.sh) and run.sh
is hooked to test1.desktop file. I created test1.desktop file and test1
appears in the menu. but when I clicked it is not launching. it tries for  a
while and disappears.

*test1.desktop:*
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=TEST1
Exec=/usr/bin/run.sh
Icon=qtdone
StartupWMClass=qtdone
X-Window-Icon=qtdone
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
Terminal=false

*/usr/bin/run.sh:*
dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest="com.nokia.osso_browser"
--print-reply /com/nokia/osso_browser/request
com.nokia.osso_browser.load_url string:"google.com"

*ls -l /usr/bin/run.sh:* -rwxr-xr-x

if I execute simply run.sh, works fine. But the same thing I am trying to do
it through Icon. Am I missing something. I am new to N900. Help would be
gretaly appreciated.

-Raja



On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Fred Lefévère-Laoide
> <fred at lefevere-laoide.net> wrote:
>
> > You simply have to create a .desktop file associated with your program
> > (don't forget to initialize dbus session with osso_init)
>
> osso_initialize is not needed if you don't specify X-Osso-Service in
> the .desktop file.
>
> Here's a .desktop file that works properly:
>
> [ville~/qtdone]|4> cat qtdone.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Version=1.0
> Type=Application
> Name=qtdone
> Exec=/usr/bin/qtdone
> Icon=qtdone
> StartupWMClass=qtdone
> X-Window-Icon=qtdone
> X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
> X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable
> Terminal=false
>
>
> --
> Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia
>
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