Adding your application and its icon to the Ubuntu Mobile Desktop

The final step for your new mobile application

This information also appears on the Ubuntu Mobile Guide

Assuming you have a fairly recent drop of UME, new applications 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/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

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Mobile;

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

_False_

then every .desktop is shown and

/onlyshowin_ignore

Always show these apps, even if they don't have

OnlyShowIn

Cheese is in this list hence it is always shown

Apparently this key should go away when *every* application is a good citizen and complies to the freedesktop.org standards.

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