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Well, after removing and re-adding Personal Menu in portrait, single-column seems to work properly -- in portrait, it doesn't scroll (with 12 items), and in landscape, it does; then retrying from landscape mode works... So the issue I noted seems to have disappeared for no reason .

I guess something probably went weird in my previous test procedure, though I'm not sure what.

No, Personal Menu only updates when the configuration file changes, so it won't update layout on orientation changes. Apparently starting it in portrait made it a bit better in both cases for your situation, but that wouldn't always be the case.

I will try to have this work better in the next release.

Is there a way to export the links in the Personal Menu? After flashing the device to a newer (auto-updating) OS, the Device has no entries in PM, it's a blank slate. However, I have a bootable SD card with lots of PM entries. I'd like to export the entries that are in the SD card system to the device's system.

I tried doing this by using Nokia's built-in Back-up of the SD card system's Settings, and then restoring them into the Device's system. Most of the Settings did come along (like it turned on my virtual memory, which had been Off on the Device system but On in the SD Card system), but PM remained a blank slate.

I'd be glad to copy a file from the SD card to the Device system, but I don't know what file that is.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

(BTW, as I've said before, months ago, I *love* Personal Menu, especially since you added multiple Menus, one of which I use as a Form Filler.)

GeraldKo,

Personal Menu should backup with the "Settings" portion of the Backup/Restore application. There is only one text file ".personal-menu.rc" located in your home directory that contains all the information. You should be able to grab that file from your SD boot and plunk it into your internal boot without issue.

Dude, your "Personal Menu" and "Personal Launcher" applications have added so much value (in usability) to my N800. Without them my tablet could have ended up on a shelf, never to be used again, months ago. Thanks...

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Is there an elegant way to command either application to launch a file that is associated with a particular program?

I would love to be able to fire up "m3u" play list files in a media player with just one click.

If you mean to open files in a particular application by clicking them in the file manager, that's the topic of this thread, and some software does exist. Honestly, I haven't paid it attention since it was fairly experimental tweaky stuff, but I think they've got things reasonably slickified these days...

Thanks but no...

I do use dbus-switchboard so that files from file manager launch in the app I have associated them with... It works very well too

That is the first part of the process. The next part would be if I could use Personal Menu to point to that particular file as a menu item.

Right now I have Personal Menu item for media player. If I want a particular song , video, play list, or podcast I must first launch MP, then browse to the file using MP's menu, select it, then rock on.

If instead I could use PM to launch the file, MP would launch along with it saving a bunch of steps, savvy?

/usr/bin/dbus-send --print-reply --dest=com.nokia.mediaplayer /com/nokia/mediaplayer com.nokia.mediaplayer.mime_open string:"/path/to/*.m3u"

You are the best Faheem!

How would this command change for a third party app like Mplayer... assuming a default installation?

Mplayer accepts parameters unlike Media Player, so with mplayer you can do mplayer /path/to/file fine

But, if you have to use dbus to launch, the command above should work with any app that supports being launched from the file manager/web browser as mime_open seems to be pretty generic. All you'd have to change is the mediaplayer part & possibly the nokia part. you can see what to change it to by running dbus-monitor and opening a file through the file manager and see what gets launched annd change accordingly. (in this case, it was com.nokia.mediaplayer)