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

Is it in testing? Then vote for it if you feel it's good enough (speaking of which, I'll go check now). If it's not in testing, then we need the dev to promote it from devel to testing.

And at this point, we'd be better off if Hrw pushed his fork to devel, then to testing. And we could vote that in from there.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur (Post 866107)

Still works fine for me (though I just do it from the Terminal nowadays). Are you using the ApMeFo from the repository? Or from a few pages back in this thread?

If it's from the repository, did you install one of the programs that's been known to cause it to glitch by having a space in the wrong part of it's .desktop file? (Namely, if you reflashed to PR1.3, did you install Gas-Balls?)

First thing, you go to /usr/share/applications/hildon on your N900 (either from terminal - assuming you have rootsh installed - or from something like Filebox, etc). If you have gas-balls, open gas-balls.desktop and change the line that says:
Name = Gas-Balls
to
Name=Gas-Balls

If you don't have Gas-Balls, or that doesn't fix it, then go through all the other .desktop files in there, and make sure there's no spaces before and after the equal sign in the name line.

Or you can download the latest version made by Hrw - his version already fixed that bug.

Thanks a lot for your help Mentalist!

I changed the Name-Line in gas-balls.desktop and installed Hrw´s .deb-file (version 0.10-1_all).

But still the same problem:
I can add/delete folders, but when I select a folder and tap the Add-Button nothing happens...

What else can I try?
As far as I understand with the new version I do not have to go through all .desktop files and check for blanks in the "Name"-line, right?

Note: With the new version even "Activate" does not work. Activate/Deactivate worked before upgrade to version 0.10-1
I also have catorise installed, might this cause some kind of conflict even though there was no problem having both ApMeFo and catorise before PR1.3?

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

Ok, ApMeFo is working again after I downgraded to the repository version...
Thanks again Mentalist for your support!

However I wish the new version from Hrw would work for me as it seems to be more user friendly!
Hope someone will continue improving ApMeFo!

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

Test this version please. If it work then I will upload it to extras-devel/testing.

@Reflektorfalke: Catorise should be uninstalled if you want to test ApMeFo.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hrw (Post 866894)

Test this version please. If it work then I will upload it to extras-devel/testing.

@Reflektorfalke: Catorise should be uninstalled if you want to test ApMeFo.

Thanks a lot for the new version Hrw!

As described in my previous post I downgraded to the version currently in the repo to get ApMeFo working again (with Catorise installed).

Today I upgraded to your new version - works like a charm and usability is a LOT better!!!
(Would be nice to have "Select App/Folder" dialog also in portrait mode ;-) )

Btw, I have catorise still installed and it does not conflict with ApMeFo. When I deactivate ApMeFo my menu is organized by catorise and after re-activating my ApMeFo folder structure is back - catorise works like a "fall-back solution" ;-)

All in all, awesome job! Please bring this to extras and keep improving this nice toy :-)

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

hint, hint: use 'thanks' link more :)

dialogs in portrait is something on todo list - I will drop 'diagnostics' and 'readme' from menu and add 'todo' there probably.

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hrw (Post 867399)

hint, hint: use 'thanks' link more :)

dialogs in portrait is something on todo list - I will drop 'diagnostics' and 'readme' from menu and add 'todo' there probably.

Haha, you are right - sorry ;-)
Actually I just wanted to hit the thanks button, but forgot before LOL Probably because I was so excited about this new version ;-)

"Todo-List" sounds good by the way :D

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

By the way, current ApMeFo seems to create a menus file that includes an actual provision for excluding the categorize-created entries. (Since I've looked at it before. It has an entire chunk prefaced with a comment to the effect of "this is stuff being excluded from the main menu just in case the person also has categorize already installed.)

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

Hello! I've been trying to get this app to work but it won't start up. Main.py sais RuntimeError: the sip module implements API v8.0 but the PyQtGui module requires API v7.1. Can anyone help? Thanks!

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

@NightShift79

@Hrw

//EDIT:
I just compiled your source and installed the *.deb, but Hrw_ApMeFo doesn't start... It start's loading, but then drop back to Desktop...

I have the same problem... I had bootloop and then i reflashed my n900 and installed backups but now ApMeFo doesn't start just like NightShift79 wrote. I tried 0.9.6 version and 0.10.2 version but nothing wokrs:(. So anybody knows how to fix that?