how to list installed applications in N900?

[trandinhduy]

Hello everyone,

I have some problems:

1/ How can I list all installed applications in N900 through my application? This mean I use my applications to browse through a list of installed apps on the phone?

2/ Based on question 1, when I click on 1 application, what can I do to execute that application?

3/ Can we download an app and force it to be installed in a specific location in the phone?

Thank you.

[divanov]

1/ How can I list all installed applications in N900 through my application? This mean I use my applications to browse through a list of installed apps on the phone?

It actually depends how one defines what is an application, but for example this script lists all packages visible in a task launcher menu.

#!/bin/sh
for file in $(find /usr/share/applications/hildon/ -name "*.desktop"); do
   name=$(dpkg -S $file > sed "s/\(.\):.*/\1/")
   echo $name
done

2/ Based on question 1, when I click on 1 application, what can I do to execute that application?

You can learn executable name from desktop file from line Exec=/usr/bin/something

3/ Can we download an app and force it to be installed in a specific location in the phone?

Sure you can download package and install it, if you have root priviledges, however, all packages are installed relatively to root directory.

[trandinhduy]

Thanks for your answer.

However, maybe my question was unclear.

I mean I am making an N900 application using Qt widget.

In this application I want to show all the installed application in N900 phone and let users browse on this. Is there any API (hildon API or Qt API) can I use to do such a thing?

Best regards.

[divanov]

However, maybe my question was unclear.

No, it was crystal clear!