The core menu is actually the /etc/xdg/menus/hildon.menu file - it pulls everything else in (including the applications.menu file in a normal setup, but this can easily be overridden).

Correct...

I accually have the 'grimm.menu' in the /hildon directory. not in a /hildon/grimm directory. so it's in the same folder as the applications.menu.
(offcourse you can change 'Grimm' to whatever, i just made it that to not conflict with anything already there)

and yeah, i would also like a desktop shortcut capable of launching any custom menu. but like posted, that's not yet doable.

Grimm,

Thanks for your example! Yes I'd changed mine to Ed.menu but I didn't want to confuse things by trying to explain that as well.

Oh... your instructions for the hildon.menu still show <MergeDir>hildon/</MergeDir>

It didn't work until I changed it to <MergeDir>Grimm/</MergeDir>

I just wanted to add that in case others try to follow along.

You can try http://my.arava.co.il/~matan/770/n90...1.15_armel.deb . This adds a dbus signal for selecting an icon in the launcher:
The parameter is the position of the icon to activate, starting from 0. Parameter -1 is equivalent to pressing free space between icons.
If the launcher is not displaying, this call does nothing, so to use in a script, you need to send the command for activating the launcher, and sleep enough time for the launcher to actually appear. Of course, you also need to know the position of the folder you are interested in.

I'm not clear on the icon position. Is this counting pixels or icons?

If 0 is the left most icon, what number would be the right most icon in the same row?

Counting icons. The rightmost in top row is number 4.

This is COOL!!!

I'll upload some screen shots when I get it working like I want.

Thanks!!!!!!!

Here it is... I have tabs!



Click on the widgets at the bottom, "Apps", "Extras", "Utils", "Games"... you'll bounce through the applications.menu (don't need to click anything here)...



and in 2 seconds, you'll be in that menu screen.



I realize this is very similar to Catorise but the one thing Catorise couldn't do (or at least I couldn't figure out how to do it) was get to the category from the desktop.

Now I've got a little organizing to do.

Thanks Matan! Thanks Grimm!

Matan, will this be included into your regular modified-hildon-desktop, or do I need to run this version from now on?