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Making symbolic link to desktop file

In Maemo 4.0 Tutorial, section "Integrating Applications to maemo Framework" it is said:

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The format of the link is such that it begins with four numbers, defining the order of the entry (smallest come on top of the menu) and then underscore (_) following the application name

It's not clear to me what four numbers should I use here for my own application installer. The MaemoPad example uses 0112 (and so does VNC Viewer which installation seems to be cloned from MaemoPad), so I assume it's ok to use this value, too?

But what happens if this value is already taken from another application, will this confuse the menu?

Is there an alternative method to create this symbolic link? (The hello-world-app example seems to use a different algorithm since it has no hello-world-app.links file in his debian directory inside the source tree!?)

Re: Making symbolic link to desktop file

I'm fairly certain that the only function this number has is to allow ordering the items in non-alphabetic order. That way the system doesn't need any special means to keep track of the order of the items. Instead, it can just list the files and sort them numerically.