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Hi Fifer - I'm seeing some icon size deformities in Personal Menu. They currently look stretched.

E.g.


Any chance of scaling them up/down without changing the aspect-ratio?

Also, the most recent update to Leafpad seemed to move it's icon from the hildon section to the applications section, and as you can see it's not showing up in the menu itself - it does show in the "Arrange Items" list, but the icon also doesn't show under the "Edit Command", "Icon to display" - instead it displays an image-not-found kinda placeholder.

Kudos though, LOVE the personal menu!

Hello fiferboy,
Your personal menu is Great! I've been using it since day 1. One request, can you make it rotation friendly? That is, display your personal menu in portrait mode if the screen is rotated, and in landscape mode in normal. This would be great, or otherwise I could only see half of personal menu once I rotate the screen.

Thank you!

I will try to make sure the next version is rotation friendly (I played with it once and noticed that at least I have it opening in the right spot) and respect icon aspect ratios.

I have a configuration screen redesign almost (90%) completed, so it will do in that version. Thanks for the requests.

AFAICT, it is rotation friendly if it's on auto-layout. Or if you only fill it to 480x480 worth, with any layout...

Hmmm, Benson has a point. It will not be rotation friendly if you manually set it up to have four columns.

A question: when using rotation, does it change size on auto-layout every time you change the orientation? Does it require anything special, or does it just work?

Last I checked, it just worked, but that may have been a couple versions back. Going to test now. (I've just been too lazy to get things into it, so I've been putting up with Nokia's rotation-broken App menu.)

Very soon there will be a version that is much easier to populate. Maybe tomorrow, but definitely this week (hopefully ;-))

Well, it's not as I remembered, anyway. Auto layout seems to just leave everything in a single column with scroll arrows -- the height of this seems to be calculated assuming 480px screen height, so it scrolls unnecessarily in portrait.

Manually setting the layout to 4 columns, 6 rows, makes my 12 test items fill 6 rows, but only two columns. This works cleanly either way, since it's less than 480 both ways. When setting it to 3 columns, 3 rows, it fills 3 columns and 4 rows, which also works. Setting to 4 columns, 3 rows, it does just that, overflowing in portrait mode, but making an appropriate "best-effort" fit by sticking to the left side and overflowing off the right. Forcing to 1 column makes it overflow the bottom of the "screen", with scroll arrows, but again this stops at 480px.

(And I'm not sure how much easier to populate it could get -- unless perhaps I'm running an extras-devel version with that feature already live. The configuration I'm seeing is first-rate.)

Benson, that makes sense. What if you rotate the screen, remove Personal Menu, then re-add Personal Menu (when it is on auto-layout?) Maybe I just need to check for orientation changes.

Yes, the version in extras-devel has an improved setup, but there are still a couple of things missing.