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Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

It's likely the hildon-desktop bug (same problem that categorize has). So if so, yes it's a known bug but it has to be fixed by Nokia.

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by rolan900d (Post 752665)

Just to check things....

When I activate my new folders, the seems seems to suck battery everytime it is activated...
last night I went to sleep around 02.00 and I set the cell to offline.
tested with some folders and this morning around 10.00 the batterygraph app stated that there was a small activity as there were cpu drainage every time (only small).

Is this a known bug/action?

There's a known bug that having custom folders can cause high CPU usage, requiring a reboot to fix (this is not specific to ApMeFo, but happens with Catorise, MyMenu, or manually created folders as well). I've only had this happen a couple of times in the last month though.

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 752681)

It's likely the hildon-desktop bug (same problem that categorize has). So if so, yes it's a known bug but it has to be fixed by Nokia.

Well, the code is open sourced. A talented and/or eager developer could check it out from gitorious, find the bug, attach a patch to #10412 and we can then work on a community patch package for hildon-desktop, depended on by Catorise and ApMeFo (pending the patch being merged and shipped by Nokia).

EDIT: There're a lot of people in the community who say "open source stuff and we'll fix it". Given hildon-desktop's open source, this bug is quite major and no one in the community has seemed to look at debugging it, it doesn't add much weight to the arguments made :-(

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

Thanks for the info guys/girls

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

I have a question. Is it possible to rearrange the icons in the menu that are not is a folder?

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Zekahz (Post 752983)

I have a question. Is it possible to rearrange the icons in the menu that are not is a folder?

Ack - sorry for the late reply, didn't get the notification for the last couple of posts (or most probably simply missed it :rolleyes: ).

Sadly, no. That would require to create an essential system file on the fly, making the app more risky to use, and I decided against this. By now I have to admit that I'm pretty much wavering (it has been requested a couple of times already), but at least in the next couple of versions I'll not include this functionality. Sorry... :(

I just had an idea on how to solve this... :eek:
I'll give it a try after work, but I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work... :eek:
I feel pretty stupid I didn't think of it earlier, especially since the vital hint already was given in one of the bug reports... :eek:

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Jaffa (Post 752794)

EDIT: There're a lot of people in the community who say "open source stuff and we'll fix it". Given hildon-desktop's open source, this bug is quite major and no one in the community has seemed to look at debugging it, it doesn't add much weight to the arguments made :-(

Would it be considered rude (or has it even been done already) to post a topic in the developer forum requesting OSS developers to help with this? After all there's a chance those capable of fixing this problem just simply don't know about it/the open source nature of hildon, yet?

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4082/...a1eb25d2_b.jpg

Proof of concept - coming soon to N900s in your area... ;)
(No hildon.menu file was harmed while shooting this screenshot. It's all safely and soundly stored in apmefo.menu!)

Though in the beginning I'll only implement reordering folders, as apps would already need the implementation of the get-unallocated-apps algorithm coming in a later version.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/...3930d2f5_b.jpg

And this one just to show that localisation is working now. Probably not the most elegant way I've implemented it, but at least it's working like a charm.

For anybody who'd want to try themselves at a translation, I've attached the template file. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I'm running out of languages to which I can translate myself... :D

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

Just thought I'd let you know I started on the readme. But I'm not that great at writing technical documents..well I can but it gets boring. =P Wrote it while catching up on some anime lol.

Code:

Waning ApMeFo may cause problems such as not being able to see any icons in your application launcher if something goes inredibly wrong. I personally keep a shortcut of ApMeFo on my desktop just in case something goes wrong so I can go back to the application and deactivate it.



Onto the documentation.



When you first start the program you will be taken to the (De-)Activate tab. This tab, along with the Add Apps tab will soon be familar to you as you use this program. The (De-)Activate appropriately, activates and deactivates the ApMeFo functionality. When in the deactivated state, ApMeFo is off, and your applications will be organized in alphabetical order. More interesting is the activate state, which will organize your icons according to the folders you have set in ApMeFo.



How to Create Folders and Icons 



To create a folder, go to the Create/Edit tab, here you can create new folders and assign them an icon. You can also edit existing folder names.



Creating a New Folder



Click, the text field in Folder Name and type in your desired Folder name.

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Laughing Man (Post 762863)

Just thought I'd let you know I started on the readme. But I'm not that great at writing technical documents..well I can but it gets boring. =P Wrote it while catching up on some anime lol.

Code:

Waning ApMeFo may cause problems such as not being able to see any icons in your application launcher if something goes inredibly wrong. I personally keep a shortcut of ApMeFo on my desktop just in case something goes wrong so I can go back to the application and deactivate it.



Onto the documentation.



When you first start the program you will be taken to the (De-)Activate tab. This tab, along with the Add Apps tab will soon be familar to you as you use this program. The (De-)Activate appropriately, activates and deactivates the ApMeFo functionality. When in the deactivated state, ApMeFo is off, and your applications will be organized in alphabetical order. More interesting is the activate state, which will organize your icons according to the folders you have set in ApMeFo.



How to Create Folders and Icons 



To create a folder, go to the Create/Edit tab, here you can create new folders and assign them an icon. You can also edit existing folder names.



Creating a New Folder



Click, the text field in Folder Name and type in your desired Folder name.

I'll fix the typos and clean it up a bit:

Code:

Warning!



ApMeFo may cause problems such as not being able to see any icons in your application launcher, if something goes incredibly wrong. Keeping a desktop-shortcut of ApMeFo is recommended.



Documentation.



When you first start the program you'll be taken to the (De-)Activate tab. The (De-)Activate enables and disables the ApMeFo functionality. When in the deactivated state, ApMeFo is off, and your applications will be organized in alphabetical order. More interesting is the activate state, which will organize your icons according to the folders you have set in ApMeFo.



How to Create Folders and Icons 



To create a folder, go to the Create/Edit tab, here you can create new folders and assign them an icon. You can also edit existing folder names.



Creating a New Folder



Click the text field in Folder Name and type in your desired Folder name.

Better? I personally still don't like the fact, that tabs are named as e.g. (De-)Activate and Create/Edit, seems quite unclean to me, at least. I suggested to the OP earlier on to rename those but oh well... :rolleyes: