changing application categories
 

when i install an application, i can put it in a folder such as
utilities , internet, or extras.

i put all of them in extras but now i want to organize them.
how can i change the folders?

Re: changing application categories
 

- unfortunately, it's non-intuitive either in os2007 or os2008...

- Tools (Settings)->Control Panel->Navigation (Personalization)->Panels->Applications (Organize button)

- this task should be a one- or two-click drag-and-drop action, but someone decided to do it the Microsoft Way™

:-)

Re: changing application categories
 

On OS 2008 it's actually much simpler:

Settings - Control Panel - Panels - Organise

Re: changing application categories
 

But after you get there how do you move say Xdrt from Extras to My applications?

Re: changing application categories
 

I just tried it, and it's a simple drag-and-drop process. Click on the app you want to move on the right, drag it to the appropriate folder on the left, then click "Done" when you've finished moving things about.

Re: changing application categories
 

i have os2008, and it works (drag and drop) once you find it!!!!
i feel like such a newbie! after all what is a "panel"! if it said "organize applications" instead, i would have found it myself!!!

Re: changing application categories
 

I didn't work for me -
I opened Organize and tried to drag-n-drop "images" from My Selection to Extras.
The little icon followed the stylus over, then scooted back. It never stayed where I drag it.
Finally about the 10th time it worked.
Repeating it it still doesn't work reliably.
/edit - finally got mahjong to move

Re: changing application categories
 

It's buggy in my n810, too, while it was ok on os2007 (n800). It takes several trials to move an icon, and at times using another group as an intermediate base.
I am going to file is as a bug on maemo bugzilla (if I find it :)

Re: changing application categories
 

The Drop target in the left pane isn't very intuitive. You'd think that dragging something over and seeing the target item highlight would let you drop it there, but that isn't the case if you drop the item on the text. I've found that it only works consistently if you drag an item and drop it on the folder icon of the category you want to move it to. Dropping it on the name of the category didn't do as you'd expect.

Re: changing application categories
 

sometimes things do take several trials with the n800/os2008...
for example drop down menus on the browser got
stuck on the bottom line, and cannot move to the second from the bottom... i tricked it by going to the top and then scrolling back down!

i get used to the multiple trials and don't even notice...
but i did need to drag and drop a couple times too to move the applications!

Re: changing application categories
 

All I can say is what I see, and it drags and drops fine without any problems for me at all. I dragged and dropped to a new folder, it worked. I dragged and dropped it back to its original folder, and it worked.

I'm using the latest version of OS 2008, and the only app in the background is Skype.

EDIT: I've just tried it again and it still works absolutely fine for me, I can't reproduce any of the problems mentioned in posts above. The dragging and dropping worked fine when I dropped on the folder icon itself and when I dropped on the text next to the folder icon.

Re: changing application categories
 

i think i also had to point to the folder instead of the text... but maybe i was just lucky that way ;)

Re: changing application categories
 

interesting. Thought mine was broken for days now. I use the new version of OS2008 on my N800. After reading this, I decided to play around with it and see if I could get it to work. Finally, it works.

Mine seems backwards from everyone else's. Mine only works if I drag the icon on the right, to the left column, so the folder is highlighted, but I CAN NOT drop it on the text or the folder on the left. It must be in the white area to the right of the text. Works perfectly every time. No applications open in the background. Not in full screen.

Strange, huh?

EDIT - scratch all that. It seems to actually be a invisible box that the item must be dropped in. It seems to be near the 6th character of the word in the left column. For example, in my category named "Games" the icon must be dropped at the end of the "s". Of the Category "My Selection", it only works near the "ec" of selection.

Make of that what you will.

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To be honest, I've yet to find any consistency in how application icons are moved from one group to the next...each of the suggested solutions here have worked for different program icon groups...ie. I was able to move one program by dragging the application icon over the folder icon...nothing else would work; in a second scenario, I had to drag the application icon into the white space as suggested above; so far, in a third case what worked was a quick double-click and drag ontop of the group name???

As barqer says, "Make of it what you will"

Other than these strange little issues here and there, this little device is proving itself more and more awesome each day!

Re: changing application categories
 

I had this problem for months and then completely solved it, for me.

You have to go to the organize spot, of course. Drag the icon you want to move to the category where you want it and quickly drop it JUST ACROSS THE MIDLINE, not near the folder icon.

Re: changing application categories
 

Tried all these methodologies at some point and the only thing that seems to work is tireless repetition until it decides it is happy with wherever you drop it. On the folder sometimes works, on the text sometimes works and somewhere around where you want it sometimes works. All it takes is a lot of time and luck. Cursing seems to be optional :).

Where I work we call that flaky behavior and fix it :-).