Basically, I'd like to try to code up a service that counts time and listen to dbus to trigger specific actions. (nothing fancy yet)

I am fairly familiar with c++, but I am completely lost in the "setting framework and pieces" phase that sadly comes first. There are a lot of documentation out there, but their not consistent between one another

I'm using the Qt SDK as I thought it would be useful to get familiar with it, and as Qt provides dbus abstraction. I've chosen "Qt Console Application" template, does that make sense?

I tried to inherit from a QtService class, but it does not seem to find the includes. How do I add include paths in a Qt SDK project?

Or is there a more straightforward way to create a service? (ie what do I need to implement?)
Targets would be maemo 5, meego, and linux desktop.

Any advice appreciated.. after that I should be good on my own.

thanks!