Launching apps in ASU

Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) raster at openmoko.org
Tue Jul 22 15:47:42 CEST 2008


On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:56:52 +0200 Sven Klomp <sven at klomp.de> babbled:

> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:46:40 Marcel wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 22 Juli 2008 08:39:20 schrieb Kalle Happonen:
> > > Hello,
> > > I just flashed to ASU (again, it's fun to play around :) ). I installed
> > > the vte terminal with opkg, and it installed nicely. Now I wonder how I
> > > can add it to the launcher, or how I can launch it at all? I can
> > > ofcourse do it with X forwarding over ssh, but that kind of misses the
> > > whole point :). If I'm not completely mistaken, the settings are in a
> > > sqlite database, and even if I do like fiddling, I wondered if there
> > > would be an easier way than playing with sqlite.
> >
> > Simply add a new .desktop file for it to /usr/share/applications. :)
> 
> But you have to select the right Category (e.g. Games) since Illume shows
> only a few categories in the launcher. I don't know what categories that are.

actually not illume's code - its /etc/xdg/meuns/applications.menu that defines
what to show. standard XDG menu stuff. same as your desktop linux distro.

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Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster at openmoko.org>




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