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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
I thought it was pretty unusual for someone to jump in and take someone else's idea on a project that was very new and call the new project his. So I decided to go with the original idea. If someone else had noticed how horrible the Nokia menu was, I would have supported them, but everyone was blind till the MyMenu author arrived on the scene.
That's not the way i remember it happening. Jaffa offered to help (and offer was accepted) by preparing the code to use the package's classification to automatically categorise the app icons. He made quick work of it and the original author had (it seemed) already done something similar on his own. That he didn't actually implement that puzzles me because that's the impression i had. I guess Jaffa decided to not let a perfectly reasonable and functional contribution go to waste by making an alternative. It's just as well. If MyMenu is still using only a hand-coded list, it's going to require constant updating and babysitting to keep working properly, and could very well end up as abandonware.

It's too bad the person with the original idea didn't utilize the improvements offered. Having a single working app with various options would have been a preferable solution.

I don't use either, as i have too few apps installed to want to add an extra level of menus.
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