[maemo-developers] qhildon-notifications in QT-Extra

[From: daniel wilms]

Hi

ext saurabh aggarwal wrote:
> We are using the qhildon-notifications in our application found at  
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo_Qt_Extra_Libraries.
>  
> For using this while development, we had to install the 
> qhildon-notifications package using "apt-get".
>  
> Now, when we are building a package, can we add the depends in the deb 
> file, and then will application manager automatically detect the 
> dependency, and prompt the user to install it when he tries to install 
> our application from the repository?

These extra libraries were just needed for Qt 4.5. In Qt 4.6 the 
functionality is built in. All you need is to add "QT += maemo5" in your 
*.pro file to include it. Have a look in the official documentation for 
qt for maemo [1], and especially the notifications[2], as you seem to 
need them.

1. http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qt-maemo-4.6/classes.html
2. http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qt-maemo-4.6/qmaemo5informationbox.html

Daniel

>  
> Another question, how do we test what the application manager would 
> do, and whether we have the dependency setup correctly?
>  
> Regards,
> -Saurabh