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Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Dr.MZ (Post 726012)

Small improvement idea: :)
It would be nice if one of the folders within himself can decide in what sequence the corresponding apps are displayed. In short, I want to sort the apps in the folder itself.

And it would be possible in the App-listing for the folder to identify the apps have already been assigned to a folder? For example, by a check mark or the name of the folder where the app is integrated.

What do you think of the ideas?

Here is a screenshot of my menu
http://meego.de/images/fbfiles/images/MenuStyle2.png

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

what if after installing ApMeFo i install another application?
in what caterogy will it be put? or will it be put in the "root folder" of the menu until you decide where it has to go?

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by msa (Post 726817)

what if after installing ApMeFo i install another application?
in what caterogy will it be put? or will it be put in the "root folder" of the menu until you decide where it has to go?

Every app that is installed later, is once more in the main menu and you can then assign a category.

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by msa (Post 726817)

what if after installing ApMeFo i install another application?
in what caterogy will it be put?

ApMeFo is in the oposite to Categorize and myMenu only to make your menu totally manually and customized. (as YOU want it) - So the Apps are not automatically sorted in folders. You have to create the folders yourself. :)

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Dr.MZ (Post 726832)

Every app that is installed later, is once more in the main menu and you can then assign a category.

You can though manually edit the files and add automatic categorization. This has been implemented on Catorise quite well, didn't seem to work so well when I did it manually (meaning time before ApMeFo, when one had to all .menus and .directories manually). Sure, I got Ovi Store and X-Terminal automatically categorized but those went to System instead of Network and those two were quite literally the only ones that even closely worked.

So, as stated above, you'll need to adjust the new app manually (unless you want to do the categorization, experience really crappy categorizing and possibly switching to Catorise, then go ahead and add it, I don't recommend it at all).

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Dr.MZ (Post 726807)

What do you think of the ideas?

Here is a screenshot of my menu
http://meego.de/images/fbfiles/images/ApMeFo.png

Share the icon set pls :)

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

You can find the download to MeeGo.de

Now there is Version 2.0 for Menu Style

http://meego.de/images/fbfiles/images/MenuStyle2.png

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

Great work indeed.

I'm pleasantly surprised that I don't see the hildon-desktop bug using this app.

[Request] make it possible to filter out the previously catagorized apps from the app selection menu [/Request]

thanks for the app!

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-2) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

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Originally Posted by Nathraiben (Post 725234)

I'll keep you up to date on that - maybe, after installing it, I might be able to find a way to simply incorporate the files created by Catorise.

The main way of editing Catorise's menu is to edit /opt/catorise/menu, a simple file with the format:

Code:

desktop-file-name: section

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Originally Posted by Nathraiben (Post 725416)

Ah, thanks - I think I understand now. So it seems Catorise intercepts the installation of applications, looks at what category they are stored at and directly writes them to the hildon.menu. Other than the battery drain that actually really neat.

Thanks. However, the battery drain isn't Catorise specific. It'll affect ApMeFo too. It's a bug in hildon-desktop introduced in PR1.2: #10412.

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Originally Posted by Nathraiben (Post 725689)

Strange, according to those messages [battery drain] SHOULD be happening with ApMeFo, too - both applications are using hildon.menu to get things done.

But no matter how often and how fast I move in and out of folders, my hildon keeps behaving like a good little GUI framework.

Well, mine too. I've not seen the bug either. Perhaps it's a specific .desktop file which causes it?

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Maybe it's because Catorise is using the system wide hildon.menu while ApMeFo only writes to the .local one?

According to a comment on #10412, it's reproducible by updating the local one.

Re: [Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-3) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu

Nice app
where can I copy custom icons without replacing other icons? I tried /usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/hildon and were able to select them but they dont show up i just get this blue square.

Edit:
Forget about it I just needed a restart to reload the cache...