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Below are the fields supported in hildon-desktop (Chinook): | Below are the fields supported in hildon-desktop (Chinook): | ||
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:a DBus service name - if specified hildon desktop will try to call the top_application method on this service rather than execute what is listed in the Exec field). | :a DBus service name - if specified hildon desktop will try to call the top_application method on this service rather than execute what is listed in the Exec field). | ||
| - | (Credits to [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95#c15 Johan Billen] | + | (Credits to [https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95#c15 Johan Billen]) |
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| + | BTW: If your application needs the browser to do special URL handling, the desktop file needs to be extended [[URL_Handler|accordingly]]. | ||
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Revision as of 08:14, 22 October 2009
Format of Maemo .desktop files
Below are the fields supported in hildon-desktop (Chinook):
- Type
- Should be application
- Icon
- Name
- Categories
- not used on maemo, but used in Ubuntu mobile
- Comment
- now unused, was used as second line of text in the startup menu in Bora
- Exec
- NoDisplay
- set to true to hide the entry in the menu
- StartupNotify
- set to false to disable the startup notification banner
- StartupWMClass
- used to override the expected window class name, default to the binary name
Some Maemo-specific extensions:
- X-Text-Domain
- set the L10n domain from which the application name is translated (with dgettext)
- X-Osso-Service
- a DBus service name - if specified hildon desktop will try to call the top_application method on this service rather than execute what is listed in the Exec field).
(Credits to Johan Billen)
BTW: If your application needs the browser to do special URL handling, the desktop file needs to be extended accordingly.