@nicorumiz: You should really post everything concerning manual customisation to the non application specific thread. Not that I wouldn't want interesting discussion like that on here (actually, feel free to post away as much as you like ), but the real experts are over there, so you're more likely to get your answers over there.

I've been into this topic for a mere two days when I started writing ApMeFo (and into Python - both pretty much shows, I fear ), and while I'm constantly learning more about it so I can add new features, my knowledge about hildon.menu is still rather basic. The real genii are back in the original thread.

@all: I'm trying to sum up all the requests and to post when/whether they are probably going to be implemented. Please post if I happen to forget anything!

Features and Bugs for V1.0
Before adding a lot of new functionality, I'd like to get a stable and usable V1.0 out there. This will include the following requests:

• The popups for selecting Folders and Applications will be sorted alphabetically.
• The popup for selecting Applications will allow for multiple selections (this makes the request for getting rid of the OK button impossible, so the button will have to stay in there).
• When adding/removing Applications, ONLY the part between the Include tags will be modified. That way, it will be possible to manually add applications between Exclude tags without them being touch by ApMeFo.
• I will try to implement better routines to check whether an application is set to NoDisplay or not (hopefully I only overlooked a small case inconsistency, which would be easy to fix then).
• If possible, I would like to fetch localised application names. Sadly, I don't have the faintest idea how to do that - would be happy about any hint you could give me!

Post V1.0 features
Once we have a stable release, in relatively small version steps I'd like to implement the rest of the request. Not sure which of them are actually do-able, and with some I'm still unsure on how to best implement them:

• In the select popup, do not list applications already added to the current folder. Not quite high on my list of priorities, since adding an application twice to the same folder won't do no harm, anyway. But for reasons of clarity it will be fixed eventually.
• In the select popup, add a button "Show only unallocated applications". Not sure whether this will actually work, because checking every single folder against the list of applications might turn out rather slow. Will give it a try.
• Add auto-categorisation: Not sure whether this would be a good idea, since most applications are either not marked or put into a totally random folder. If anything, reading Catorise's file would be an option, but that would only work when both applications could run at the same time (see me last post).
• Rearrange/sort applications: Would love to add this feature, but until I learn how to do this manually I won't be able to include it with ApMeFo.
• Allow for non-Ascii names of folders (and find no-Ascii names of applications): Sadly, I haven't yet found a way to do that with Python. Will definitely try to get a workaround, though.
• Add the ability to rename folders: Probably one of the first changes, since this is both easy to do AND a great idea.

Requests I'm not sure about
These are request that where made but I'm not quite sure about. Would be happy about any input on what others think about it.

• Omitting the filenames of icons in the selection popup. While this would make scrolling less tedious, I'm not sure whether to implement this. Filenames can be quite a good indicator on where you are (for example, once I'm around the icons starting with "F" I know I'll have to expect the filemanager_* icons soon).
• Make separate buttons for Create and Edit. Would this really be an advantage over the current system? If not I'm not sure whether it would be worthwhile to add a couple of new methods and messages to do so.

Requests that are most probably not going to make it in
Because they are either impossible/dangerous or simply not necessary.

• While I more than understand those requests, I won't do anything that includes modifying hildon.menu at DOM level. I'm just not prepared to risk messing up other people's devices (bad enough that I already do with a less critical copy&paste modification of the file ). Sadly, this also includes rearranging and sorting folders and applications in the main menu...
• Backup changes done with ApMeFo: Actually, there's just no need to do that. If you decide to deactivate or uninstall ApMeFo, both the .desktop files and the .menu files will remain, they just won't have any effect on your menu (provided to deleted hildon.menu). Once you reinstall/-activate ApMeFo, you'll have full access to those folder settings again.

Again, if I missed anything, please let me know!

Not sure when I'll be able to start working on V1.0 (couple of medical appointments coming up next week), but I'll keep you up-to-date!