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	Jaffa	2010-03-21 , 11:23
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Originally Posted by JCH

I suppose it's "didn't put them where I wanted" in that case.

Actually, it's a mix:

For example, Angry Birds and some other games got placed in the Ovi folder instead of "Games"

This is because I haven't yet found a way of categorising stuff in Ovi. I'd planned to do a web service which'd index the packages, unfortunately it's not viable due to the limited searching on Ovi. However, it gets worse...

QuickPanorama got placed into "Other" instead of "Multimedia" (where Camera and the media players are)

Now that Ovi is delivering random debs over HTTP, rather than through a repository, it's now impossible to distinguish an Ovi installed application from a random deb you've installed; however they still have Section: user/hidden.

I'm trying to get in contact with some folks at Forum Nokia and Ovi to see about exposing some kind of machine-readable Ovi API.

Evince (pdf reader) got placed into "Other" instead of "Office",

How did you install Evince? Is it this version in extras-devel? If so, I'll have a look - it could be that it's got a Categories line in its .desktop file which is overriding the one from the package.

If there were a way to manually move applications, it would be awesome.

See above :-)

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Last edited by Jaffa; 2010-03-21 at 11:43.

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