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	Jaffa	2010-01-13 , 13:43
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Originally Posted by aspidites

I imagine you've figured this out by now, but anything in the ovi repo is categorized under "user/hidden" which is why they aren't getting put into the correct categories. Perhaps you could scrape the ovi store, or use RPC/JSON?

Indeed, that's the plan. Is there an RPC/JSON API? If not, I've already worked out how to do the screen scraping; but something more robust is desirable.

Originally Posted by nex

Just installed it, looks great. Will manual edits to /opt/catorise/menu to change the categories of some apps be overwritten in future updates, or is there a more preferred way to do this?

/opt/catorise/menu can be edited to shuffle things around and they won't get overwritten (unless you put them in other or an invalid section).

Once edited, you can run - as root - /opt/catorise/catorise to regenerate.

Originally Posted by D-Iivil

So we need somekind "refresh the menu" -button or otherwise it should be done manually by some background process?

It's supposed to be done on application install/uninstall using dpkg triggers and, indeed, it works for me. If you install something using apt-get, as root, in X Terminal does it show a line of the form:

Code:

Catorise: Updating menu structure...

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