This information also appears on the Ubuntu Mobile Guide
Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications should:
install a .desktop file into /usr/share/applications
install an icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor// (e.g. /usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/myapp.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 :)
OnlyShowIn
The freedesktop.org has a standard
OnlyShowIn
for the application to appear in certain environments.So you can also add
>
to the desktop file and the icon will appear on the desktop.
Also something to note:
For example, cheese does not have
OnlyShowIn
but it appears in hildon desktop...others also do not have
OnlyShowIn
and do not appear..it seems that there is some special implementation for ubuntu mobile which is seen in the gconf keys:
/desktop/hildon/htmlhomeplugin/onlyshowin_filter
Check
OnlyShowIn
value in .desktop. If
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River TrailsSource:
http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/river-trailsPost Date: 2008-04-07 10:22:23
After the GPS enabled web applicationI created seemed to work in theory it arrived the time to test it in practice.
I decided to GPS mark all of the floating bars along the
Tarumã Açu (which is the first ’tributary’ after leaving Manaus).
This is probably not so useful really as floating bars, well, float around the river basically but it is like most enjoyable things in life: good while it lasts.
I rounded up the usual suspects
prepared the technology
and off we ...
Django,Bluetooth and GPS on Ubuntu MobileSource:
http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/django-blueto...Post Date: 2008-03-16 11:22:03
This article also appears on the community UME Guide
Background
Traditionally gps was provided on debian like systems using gpsd (apt-get install gpsd). There are however some problems using gpsd on resource constrained environments most noteably that gpsd is designed to be run at system start, and stopped when the system is shutdown (or a USB/bluetooth hotplug device started when that device is plugged in or removed).
Therefore if a client is started before gpsd is running...
Mobile RSS feed reader updatedSource:
http://ianlawrence.info/random-stuff/mobile-rss-fe...Post Date: 2008-02-09 13:36:56
I had a few days during Carnaval holidays to update Frothing to the latest and greatest version (1.4.10) of Liferea. There are a bunch of new translations added as well as many bug fixes so this is a recommended upgrade.This work was made easy because of a dpatch I received from Steve Kowalik. Thanks to this I got to party a bit too..so big props going his way.
Free software development rocks.
The tarball is available from:http://code.google.com/p/frothing/downloads/listIf you already...
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