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

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Originally Posted by Nathraiben (Post 760969)

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!)

Is not quite my taste. But then I'm more for the colorful menuicon.

http://meego.de/images/fbfiles/images/Screen_5.png

You can find the download to MeeGo.de
Menu Style

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

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Originally Posted by rantom (Post 763028)

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:

You've made three suggestions in that PM - one was the first change I made to the application, the second one has been put on the "not sure" list up for discussion - so that should tell you that I DID read your suggestions... but I simply won't use EVERY suggestion made if I don't think that other people would benefit from it. ;)

It's just that I don't think "Management" and "Customise" will make the tabs any more transparent/easier to use. Right now the names tell exactly what to do in each tab, while the suggested names, though of course more "elegant", could mean ANYTHING.

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Originally Posted by Dr.MZ (Post 763648)

Is not quite my taste. But then I'm more for the colorful menuicon.

http://meego.de/images/fbfiles/images/Screen_5.png

You can find the download to MeeGo.de
Menu Style

I'm not sure you got what the post was all about... I didn't display the icons (why would I, I've already did that in the very first post for those who wanted a filemanager like style :D ), but rather the ability to freely rearrange folders and icons in the main menu without risking to mess up hildon.menu.

Have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed right now - it has been THE most requested feature so far, but now that I've found a way to implement it, nobody seems to care anymore. :rolleyes:

@Laughing Man & rantom: Thanks a lot for the work so far! Just take your time, I can't put up the next version before the end of the voting for the contest, anyway. Which, as far as I know, will run for another week now that all voting threads are up.

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

I think that there are some people who care about your hard work and the new feature in your app. because of many apps installed I myself very much apriciate this little helping app. You are doing a great job for the community!

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

Thanks rantom, I've added some more.

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 on your desktop 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.



Click, the text field in Folder Name and type in your desired Folder name. For example, you may want to use Games, to have all your Games in. There are some symbol/special character restrictions  (such as &) and you can't use spaces. 



Next assign that folder an icon, by clicking the select button. Choose any icon you want but I recommend chosing general folder (it's called general_folder) if you use custom themes so the folders will update with the theme. With the default theme, it'll be a standard yellow folder. 



After finishing, click the create/edit folder button. 



Editing an Existing Folder (Functionality may not be ready yet?)



Click the select button to bring up a list of folder names that you have created in the past. Select one of the exisiting folder names, and change it, e.g. Game to Games and then click the Create/Edit Folder. Changing the folder's icon may not be available as of version (0.9-5).



Delete an existing Folder



To delete an existing folder, select the folder's name using the select button and then press the delete folder button. 



Add Apps



So you want to organize your applications into specific folders. Click the "Add Apps" tab and select your folder name. There are four buttons that you can choose from to manipulate the applications.



1) + will bring up an alphabetical listing of all the applications you have installed that can be sorted into folders. The list can be skipped through by using the hard keyboard to jump to the letter your application starts with. For example, pressing the P key will jump to applications beginning with P. You can also select more than one application to add several at once.



2) - will delete whatever application from the folder you have selected in the list of applications 



3) The ^ arrow will move the selected application in the listing upward.



4) The down arrow will move the selected application in the listing downward.



Update Folder will save your changes. 



Now to see your changes, you should click Activate to replace the default organization with ApMeFo. Do not close the application yet. See if the changes have worked, if so you can close ApMeFo now. Congrats, your folders are now organized.   



Other Tips: You can assign an application to more than one folder. For example, it may be useful to have Pidgin in a folder named Communication as well as a folder named Internet. This allows you to access the application regardless if you click Communication or Internet.

Does anybody else have something they think I should add to the ReadMe? I haven't looked in this thread yet for the troubleshooting part.

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

Not able to install...! Can anybody help.
Unable to install 'apmefo'. Conflict with python2.5-qt4-network(4.7.3-maemo5)

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

@fw190: Thanks, there's nothing better than words like those after a long, hard day! :)

Though, just to make sure I'm not misunderstood: I'm not in doubt of people appreciating any developers work on here - actually it's the best community I've ever developed for and I'm really grateful for all the support I'm getting here!
(Love you, guys! ;))

I'm just a bit miffed that I neglected a (rather important) private matter in order to investigate what I thought was the most requested feature - and then nobody wants it anymore. :p

@Laughing Man: Thanks, once again! Though I think ultimately I'll have to go with the "I write, you guy try to get rid of my English shortcomings" approach, as there still seem to be a few uncertainties.

(For example, it is not yet possible to change the name of a folder - the edit part right now is actually to change the ICON of the folder selected from the list.)

Hehe, but that's exactly why we need a ReadMe, after all. ;)

@must4get: Not sure what that package would be conflicting with, and whether it's just a extras-devel/extras-testing discrepancy.

Maybe a dumb question, but have you updated to PR1.2?

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

Just wanted to throw my thanks out there as well. Love being able to organize stuff in folder to my liking.

I'd love to be able to change the position of the folders. Just waiting for the update for that.

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

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Originally Posted by Nathraiben (Post 765226)

I'm just a bit miffed

Ouh, I'm sorry. I guess I'm following toooo many threads at the moment and I missed one of the best news. :o

I'm not every day here... only about once a week to follow your progress. But I'm eager to see how you get rid of this problem. :)
Have you already explained how it could work in detail? I can't find it... :)

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

Attention, late reply coming in! :D

(Sorry, my old machine finally kind of broke down and I was busy getting together the missing components for the shiny new one... *fondly pats new rendering power horse* ;) )

@Helmuth: Ugh, was miffed still too strong of a word? Really, I was not angry (especially not at all of you people who, by posting feedback and requests, got the application where it is now), just a bit... sulky? Mainly at myself, since I got so work up on this feature that I neglected everything else. I just totally overrated my new "finding". :p

As to how it's done, it's really quite simple:

Like Rob1n posted earlier as a bug report, naming a folder "Main" resulted in this simply overwriting settings made in the main .menu file.

Since this was prove that manipulating the main menu was possible from included files, I simply modified hildon.menu to do nothing but include a new file called apmefo.menu, which now does all the work.

In case that anything goes wrong while creating apmefo.menu, it will simply not be read by hildon, so everything reverts back to the "unallocated" behavior of the empty hildon.menu - so messing up apmefo.menu will NOT mess up the system.

That, in turn, means I can freely create layout tags on the fly, so sorting the top-level menu no longer remains a no-go!

@All: Not sure when I'll be able to finally push the next version. A week without access to a computer (other than the N900, of course :p ) left me with a lot of work to finish, especially since I started a not-quite private project that has been delayed for a week now, too. :(

But I'm on holiday next week, so I'm sure I'll get something out then (hopefully v1.1 with the sort-folder-functionality, too)!

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

I haven't read most of the topic, but overall the design is good. I did not read any documentation, and was able to figure out how to configure it without much hassle.

That being said, I noticed a couple of missing features:
1. Some way to tell which applications are already in one category or another on the add-program-to-category dialogue
I think it would be a good idea to add the names of any(and all) categories that a particular application is in on on the aforementioned dialogue - stick the names, comma seperated, to the right of each item.
This could also be added to all pages where a list of apps are shown, so you can tell if you have an app in two places, or not in any place at all.
2. Just an odd question, but why, when -entering- a category/folder, the graphic is zooming -out-, not in?
3. Icon selection is a bit of a pain - I think it could be improved via the use of a selection menu with common icons(folders, etc, and anything thats already used in a folder), and a "more" button that brings up the dialogue you already have. This way finding the icon you want is easier - scrolling through 10 pages+ of icons trying to find a generic folder icon is a bit of a pain, and becomes even more of a pain after the tenth time.

If these ideas are duplicates of ones previously brought up, sorry. Its 4AM, and I need to get to sleep.

Overall though, I like it. I'll continue to use it.