Hi,
ext Axel Sommerfeldt wrote:
> In the Maemo 4.0 Tutorial, section "Integrating Applications to maemo
> Framework", there is an example desktop file with the line:
>
> X-Osso-Service=org.maemo.example_libosso
>
> But when I take a look at the examples provided by Nokia, only the
> application name is stated here, for example:
>
> X-Osso-Service=maemopad
>
> But which one is correct, the "long" term (found in the Tutorial) or the
> "short" term (found in the maemopad example)?
>
> Which confuses me even more is a statement found in the documentation of
> osso_initialize(): [1]
>
> "Note that the D-BUS service name will be 'com.nokia.application', where
> 'application' is the value you gave as the parameter."
>
> So a DBUS service name have to be "com.nokia.<your-application-name-here>"?
>
> Furthermore one can found there:
>
> "Note also that this argument must be identical to the X-Osso-Service
> value in the desktop file, or the D-BUS daemon will kill your application."
>
> Mixing all of this together, I come to the conclusion that the "short"
> X-Osso-Service line is correct (because the argument of
> osso_initialize() must be identical to this value) and using a DBUS
> service name like "org.maemo.example_libosso" is wrong, because it must
> be "com.nokia.example_libosso" instead. Is this correct?
>
> At least the Tutorial is inconsistent to the example and to the
> documentation of osso_initialize(). But what information is correct and
> what is wrong?
>
> [1] http://maemo.org/api_refs/4.0/libosso/index.html
Please file a bug against documentation to bugs.maemo.org
with the above details.
AFAIK com.nokia. is automatically prepended to service names
that contain only one path element (no dots). I think it
would be better to use a long name as "com.nokia." is not
appropriate service prefix for 3rd party software.
- Eero
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