Notices

hey folks,

the first message: a new update is still in testing and comming soon (maybe tomorrow)

the second message: after the good response for this (beginning simple) project we decided to rewrite this tool in a "real" programming language.
At the moment we read day&night in the manuals for the SDK.

Our featuremap will depend on your input given and we build a roadmap for the new major release soon.
We hope your ideas for a menu-designing-application will not stop at this time where the "first shoot" is build.

At the moment we decied following features:
* create your own category and menupositions
* create stackable submenus
* order your apps in your own category
* use of own icons
* use of build in categories from .directory (if reasonable)
* reorder the icons in the menues (if possible)

our greatest problem: find the right and future stable programming environment
in the last days we checkt C & GTK+
depending on the choice from NOKIA to support QT in the future development
we are not sure if it is better to build (new) applications in C++ & QT

WHATS YOUR STATMENT?

(And yes: we read the development talk)

Time to help? Time to share your expirience?
Please contacta me under my garage account or a PN on maemo.org

Catorise v0.0.1 is now in Extras-devel:

http://maemo.org/packages/view/catorise/

More info available in its release announcement:

http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php...0_applications

EDIT: it can be discussed in this separate thread

Oh, the IRONY!

I wonder what your solution to the "godawfully ugly" problem of Ovi apps being uncategorised? And how will it scale?

Well, now that there's two of you doing the same thing in two projects, it should be interesting to see what happens.

I guess competition isn't always a bad thing.... Although I much prefer collaboration.

installed catorise, works perfctly, but its not everything where it should be.
games from ovi store under more...
garnetVM is only under all.
installed by apt-get install catorise. because it didn't showed up in program manager but i thought that it could be online yet...
and it does not use the icons from digital nature...

I suggest that all such programs have an option to limit pages to 15 icons (creating sub-folders if needed, so that scrolling becomes unnecessary.

sorry, did not read your site..

Well, you'll have to wait and see, unless you want to be bored with technical details. However, I'm suspecting you weren't looking for the technical details, rather the opportunity to make a jibe.

I stand by the assertion that an architecture of hardcoding a mapping of all possible applications to sections doesn't scale. Since we could only get a proper look at how Ovi is using dpkg, apt and repositories in the last day or so, it requires a more ingenious technical solution. Of which about 3 are immediately obvious; it just depends which is the most efficient to develop & deploy.

Manfred seems to be concentrating on letting you structure the menu however you want using whatever icons you want. That's not what I wanted. YMMV.

Who doesn't? However, manzn wants to go in a different direction and that's fine. Since I'd written the code earlier in the thread to assist MyMenu it seemed a shame not to use it.

deleting a program does not update the icons to the digital nature theme...

should we make a new thread for catorise ?
people will get confused discussing 2 app in one thread reporting problems etc for the wrong app.

Agreed, here you go: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=40265