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	Nathraiben	2010-06-22 , 20:56
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Originally Posted by pantera1989

Regarding my fourth suggestion I do not know if the app automatically sorts alphabetically. I haven't been able to create a folder so far.

True, sorry I forgot that - yes, it should sort everything alphabetically. But good thing I misunderstood, since that led to the realisation that sorting the lists inside the application has to be done, too.

I create a folder and get a message "Folder was successfuly created or saved". I can't remember the exact message. Then I added a few apps to test to the folder. Select update folder. Go to deactivate and I select activate. I get a message that it is activated. The result is a mess in the menu (regarding sorting). The apps I select into the folder are still in the menu and the folder is no where to be seen.

I'm staring at my code but for the life of me I can't find a reason for that. I now know why you're getting the success message despite folder creation failed, but I don't know why it fails in the first place.

This really shouldn't be a permission problem as all the files we're manipulating reside inside the home folder. I'll try to get further into this!

Regarding my third suggestion, I suggested that the apps you select to add to the folder in ApMeFo be removed from the pop up menu because one might try to add two apps in different folders. What happens if that happens?

Ah, I see! No, that's actually not a problem. You can add applications to as many folders as you want - I actually have my browser in three different folders.

And even when you happen to add an application to a folder it's already in, nothing happens. The system used to store folders internally prevents duplicate entries.

My first suggestion is not necessary if you implement selecting multiple items at a time. Maybe checkboxes? Opening the popup menu for each app is very slow, but allowing you to select multiple items will reduce the number of times you need to open the popup menu. So for the sake of stability this could be omitted.

Okay, I'll implement the multi selection so we can give it a try and see whether that makes waiting for the popup less of an annoyance.

Regarding my fifth suggestion I started the app normally, editted the folders (still can't create anything) and activated. Then deactivated and the menu was restored without the system becoming unresponsive. So this seems a bit random.

I once thought about implementing a system that would wait for hildon to power down before editing hildon.menu - but not only would that require a daemon, it would also mean you would have to reboot after every change.

Guess all I can do right now is wait for someone (or something - PR 1.3?

) to find a way to make hildon less vulnerable to realtime changes.

Anyway I will look into why i can't create folders when I get home. I am on my N900 and I have to look at the error on a different screen. Switching to xterm to see the error each time is too confusing.

So far it seems promising though. I missed the folders from Symbian. FYI I don't have catorise or MyMenu installed.

Thanks so much - not sure whether you realise how much you're helping with getting rid of those bugs and design shortcomings!

Originally Posted by kamil365

I have the same problem. Am I missing sth?

No, I'm quite sure it's actually ME missing something.

With so many people getting the same error, at least I know that it's somewhere inside my code instead of a quirk of a single device.

Idea of this app is so brilliant

All thanks should be directed towards the genii at the aforementioned thread (and the people who were asking to turn this into an actual application). I myself didn't contribute much to the idea, I was just the one stupid enough to say "I think this should be easy to do".

Originally Posted by albertozerox

Apparently I'm not the only, and already are posting in some forums.

I hope it is resolved

Thanks - like I said, knowing that a lot of people are getting this error is already helping a lot!

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