Spencer, Bob wrote:
> Nice screen shot.
>
Thanks, I'm definitely excited about using UME in my car. Love the
touchscreen-friendly interface. :)
> Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications (like
> your GPS app) should:
> 1) install a .desktop file into /usr/share/applications
> 2) install an icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/<size>/<type>
> (e.g. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/mygps.png)
>
> If #1 is done correctly, the app should show up in the UI.
> If #1 and #2 are done, it will also have the right icon :)
>
Ok... now, looking at /usr/share/applications , there are a million
different things there. Now, for example, on my desktop, there is an
icon labeled "Instant Messenger". So, I execute the following in that
directory:
grep -R "Instant Messenger" *
No results. I have noticed the presence of hildon related directories
however...
$ ls | grep hildon
hildon-control-panel
hildon-control-panel.desktop
hildon-home
hildon-marquee
hildon-navigator
hildon-status-bar
Now, I also have "galculator" on my desktop... so I make a copy of the
galculator.desktop in /usr/share/applications, and change the "Name" to
Galculator II, and name the file galculatorII.desktop. Restart the
desktop... no results. So.. I was thinking that /usr/share/applications
had something to do with it, but it seems that there is more than meets
the eye here.
There are also .desktop files in /etc/hildon-desktop ... however,
following their contents to wherever always seem to inevitably point to
some .so files, which is leading me to believe that its hardcoded
somewhere. So..... any good thoughts?
Before going too much further, I should point out that since I'm running
this on what is (for all practical purposes) a normal PC, I have the UME
stuff installed side-by-side with ubuntu-desktop (I have GDM launch the
desktop for me with autologin enabled). I can't imagine that makes too
much of a difference, but I also realize that its not really supported
too...
Once this gets solved.. we're definitely going to need to put it into
the UME Wiki somewhere.
> Hope that helps for what you're trying to do. As for playing MP3's
> (from your blog), what errors are you facing? The songs needs to go
> into ~/media/audio.
Yep. It shows up in the UI, but complains about mp3 files in particular.
I installed the "normal" mp3 stuff... however, that didn't fix that
error. I haven't really looked into fixing this in any serious way yet
however, since I'm working on getting roadnav to look/work nicely in
UME. It may be related to having ubuntu-mobile installed side-by-side
with ubuntu-desktop too.. not sure.
Thanks!
Dustin
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