On 9/5/07, Kyle Nitzsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  Thanks for your comments Rodrigo!
>
>  No, my description in the wiki page
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UMEGuide/ApplicationDevelopment/AnatomyOfUMEPythonApplication)
> of where to put an application's files does not represent a new
> standard/requirement for UME. The wiki page describes the way I got it to
> work. When you do it this way, the app displays in the UME Applications >
> Extras menu. (It would be great if a UME person could also take a look at
> the wiki page and comment on my approach.)
>

I have some suggestions about the wiki page. I will send this to the list later.

>  One slight correction to what your email said:
>  "
>  in your tutorial you install everything into /usr/share/<app name>, so
> is this a new standard for ume and one we should adapt to?
>
>  "
>  Actually, the wiki says to put the python file there but to put the
> .desktop file in /usr/share/applications, which I found (by trial and error)
> works as described above.
>

This is a good info that I will use for the next pyphantom release :-)

>  --I'd  like to write a home plugin in Python that displays by default in
> the home area at startup.
>  --I'd like to know exactly what the .desktop file should look like (the
> example in the link you provided shows a desktop file for a C plugin)
>  --And, I'd like to know exactly where the files should go (the python file
> and the .desktop file) in UME

this is my doubt too, if we can establish a location/standard I can
change the package creation code in pyphantom easily. Can we use the
python plugin loader like maemo?

>
>  I've tried putting the python file in /usr/lib/hildon-desktop and putting
> the .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/hildon-home,
> but that doesn't seem to work.
>

the pyphantom created packages works for maemo sardine, but this does
not work for UME. I would like to correct this.

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