Re: Identifying free/non-free apps (was Re: ... and QA of closed source applications?)

2009-05-07 Thread Quim Gil
ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 17:47, Quim Gil wrote: Hi, ext Attila Csipa wrote: To make things worse, the application manager does not display the repository, much less the component an application belongs to. Indeed, more information could be probably put in the

application not starting from menu

2009-05-07 Thread Guenther Meyer
hi, I have a strange problem: I ported an application to maemo, and the installation seems to work fine, it also adds an icon to the applications menu. so the usual way to start it, would be clicking on the icon in the menu. when I do this, a banner appears, telling me the application is

Re: Identifying free/non-free apps (was Re: ... and QA of closed source applications?)

2009-05-07 Thread Jeremiah C. Foster
On May 7, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Quim Gil wrote: ext Jeremiah Foster wrote: On May 6, 2009, at 17:47, Quim Gil wrote: Hi, ext Attila Csipa wrote: To make things worse, the application manager does not display the repository, much less the component an application belongs to. Indeed,

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-07 Thread Cornelius Hald
- Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: hi, I have a strange problem: I ported an application to maemo, and the installation seems to work fine, it also adds an icon to the applications menu. so the usual way to start it, would be clicking on the icon in the menu. when I

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-07 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009 schrieb Cornelius Hald: This is most likely a problem with the d-bus service file. Have a look here: http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/node7.html#SECTION0 0791200 When you click on the entry on the menu the application is not

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-07 Thread Cornelius Hald
- Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: Am Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009 schrieb Cornelius Hald: This is most likely a problem with the d-bus service file. Have a look here: http://maemo.org/maemo_release_documentation/maemo4.1.x/node7.html#SECTION0 0791200 When you

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-07 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009 schrieb Cornelius Hald: The format should not matter, only it needs to be unique on the device. it shopuld be unique. Do you have a matching X-Osso-Service entry in your .desktop file? yes. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-07 Thread Faheem Pervez
You have a DBUS Service file installed in /usr/share/dbus-1/services/? The format of this file is very simple - just open up one of the existing files already in there on your tablet. (Hint: A service name specified as firefox is the same as com.nokia.firefox) (This applies to osso_initialize,