Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-12 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Montag 11 Mai 2009 schrieb Guenther Meyer: Am Montag 11 Mai 2009 schrieb William Swanson: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gpsdrive.service: [D-BUS Service] Name=gpsdrive Exec=/usr/bin/gpsdrive D-Bus

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-11 Thread William Swanson
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gpsdrive.service: [D-BUS Service] Name=gpsdrive Exec=/usr/bin/gpsdrive D-Bus reads the .service file, not libosso, so you need to use the full name here (org.nokia.gpsdrive). The .desktop

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-11 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Montag 11 Mai 2009 schrieb William Swanson: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gpsdrive.service: [D-BUS Service] Name=gpsdrive Exec=/usr/bin/gpsdrive D-Bus reads the .service file, not libosso, so you need to use

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-11 Thread Cornelius Hald
- Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: ah, ok, I didn't know that. is this documented somewhere? are there any other rules for building the name? I thought, the service name can be everything I want, as long as it is unique on the system... I checked again, and it looks like the

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-11 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Montag 11 Mai 2009 schrieb Cornelius Hald: - Guenther Meyer d@sordidmusic.com wrote: ah, ok, I didn't know that. is this documented somewhere? are there any other rules for building the name? I thought, the service name can be everything I want, as long as it is unique on the

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-11 Thread daniel wilms
I agree it is not very clear, but correct :) As in my understanding all restrictions have to be fulfilled you have to put at least two elements, which are separated with a dot in the interface name. cheers daniel ___ maemo-developers mailing list

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-08 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Donnerstag 07 Mai 2009 schrieb Cornelius Hald: On Thu, 2009-05-07 at 14:47 +0200, Guenther Meyer wrote: 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

Re: application not starting from menu

2009-05-08 Thread Guenther Meyer
Am Freitag 08 Mai 2009 schrieb 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. /usr/share/dbus-1/services/gpsdrive.service: [D-BUS Service]

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: 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,