Comment 1 Valério Valério 2009-10-05 11:41:17 UTC

*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***

Created an attachment (id=1417) [details]
Returns the right plugin-id to be used inside Python scripts

Instead of using a plugin-id provided by the user it is better to use a self
generated one. This patch allows the widgets system to inform the right
plugin-id to the Python side, setting a new constant string (called
"hildon_plugin_id") inside the module. This string should be used at
hd_plugin_get_object definition, like this:

def hd_plugin_get_object():
    return gobject.new(HelloHomePlugin, plugin_id = hildon_plugin_id)

The proposed patch needs an update into the documentation page[1], to be
useful. This returned string is the same as the contained inside
~/.config/hildon-desktop/home.plugins file. A possible (ugly) workaround should
be to append a ".desktop-0" to the original plugin-id into the python script.

[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/HildonDesktop

Fixed in python-hildondesktop 0.1.0-1maemo1. Please note that you will need to
modify your code due to unavoidable API changes. See
http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/HildonDesktop for the instructions on how to
change your code and an updated example.

Hopefully this will be the last API change for python-hildondesktop applets
until the final PyMaemo release.

Any doubts, feel free to contact us through the mailing list:

pymaemo-developers_AT_garage.maemo.org

Verified. Thanks!

i have the same problem, i change my code like described in
http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/HildonDesktop but the widget does not appear in
the list.

Any other suggestion?

thanks

(In reply to comment #6)
> i have the same problem, i change my code like described in
> http://wiki.maemo.org/PyMaemo/HildonDesktop but the widget does not appear in
> the list.

If you are already using the latest version of python-hildondesktop, your issue
is not the same of this report.

Please send to our mailing list
(http://garage.maemo.org/listinfo/pymaemo-developers/):

* The contents of your .desktop file and where did you put it (It should be in
/usr/share/applications/hildon-home/)
* If possible, the contents of your widget

Also make sure you have hildon-desktop-python-loader package installed. Also
try running your code by hand with:

run-standalone.sh python2.5 /path/to/widget.py

And check for any errors.

Hope that helps.

Verified. Thanks!

though, launching the widget in this mode the gobject.timeout_add(etc..)
instruction does not work.