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Betty Woo	2008-03-13 , 06:56
Posts: 176 \| Thanked: 34 times \| Joined on Feb 2008	#41

Well... waited two days and BoOm - got a great new app.

Wheeeeee.

One thing, though. When I'm in Panel and trying to uncheck the web and applications icons... or at least one, I get a message saying something along the lines of 'two plug-ins required'. I guess the N800 isn't reading this app as a plug-in?

Since this app basically eliminates the need for the others, how could I get rid of the other icons?

And, in my relentless quest for a clean screen, is there a way to make the icon itself take up less screen space or alter the icon image to make it more transluscent?

This is yet another great, elemental app you've made. That's two seminal (to me, anyway) apps in a month. Most impressive!

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mscdex	2008-03-13 , 07:27
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Originally Posted by Betty Woo

One thing, though. When I'm in Panel and trying to uncheck the web and applications icons... or at least one, I get a message saying something along the lines of 'two plug-ins required'. I guess the N800 isn't reading this app as a plug-in?

Two plug-ins in addition to the Applications plug-in are required. The Personal Menu is treated as a plug-in. While there is no way to get around this requirement via Panels in the Control Panel, it's possible there might be some messy hack to forcibly disable another one of the plug-ins from the left bar.

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	tso	2008-03-13 , 11:52
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indeed it does, seems i had bad info. thanks

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	fiferboy	2008-03-13 , 12:52
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In reponse to mscdex's implication about a messy hack: here it is!

Edit ~/.osso/hildon-dekstop/desktop.conf and change the line

Code:

X-UI-Policy=libtasknavigatorpolicy.so

Code:

#X-UI-Policy=libtasknavigatorpolicy.so

Then edit ~/.osso/hildon-desktop/tasknavigator.conf and change

Code:

X-Load=true

Code:

X-Load=false

for whatever plugin(s) you want to remove. Reboot, and presto! Works for me.

I should note that commenting out the X-UI-Policy line will make it so if hildon-desktop crashes it will not reload tasknavigator with a "safe" set of plugins. Thus, if one of your tasknavigator plugins causes the crash when hildon-desktop reloads this defective plugin will reload as well, very likely causing an endless crash loop. Use this at your own caution.

You can build your own X-UI-Policy to always reload a certain set of plugins for your desktop. See the examples here (https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/pr...ktop/policies/) to build your own, then point the X-UI-Policy line in desktop.conf to this new library.

Also note that opening the "Panels" option in control panel will enforce selecting three plugins again. Further, this hack does not really buy you any space in the sidebar, because it will still only put three running application icons there, along with the switcher, so you just have some blank space at the very bottom. Possibly there is another hack to allow four running icons that would make this actually useful. Anyone?

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Check out:
Large Statusbar Clock (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/statusbarclock/)
Personal Menu (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/personal-menu/)
Countdown Home (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/countdown-home/)
Personal Launcher (https://garage.maemo.org/projects/personal-launch/)

Last edited by fiferboy; 2008-03-13 at 12:56.

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	qwerty12	2008-03-13 , 15:27
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Originally Posted by fiferboy

I should note that commenting out the X-UI-Policy line will make it so if hildon-desktop crashes it will not reload tasknavigator with a "safe" set of plugins. Thus, if one of your tasknavigator plugins causes the crash when hildon-desktop reloads this defective plugin will reload as well, very likely causing an endless crash loop. Use this at your own caution.

You can build your own X-UI-Policy to always reload a certain set of plugins for your desktop. See the examples here (https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/pr...ktop/policies/) to build your own, then point the X-UI-Policy line in desktop.conf to this new library.

I would like to add, if you have fanoush's initfs installed, with usb networking, it should be easy to fix.

Thanks btw

.

And your personal menu is getting better

. Great job & thanks again

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Betty Woo	2008-03-13 , 16:18
Posts: 176 \| Thanked: 34 times \| Joined on Feb 2008	#46

Originally Posted by fiferboy

In reponse to mscdex's implication about a messy hack: here it is!

Edit ~/.osso/hildon-dekstop/desktop.conf and change the line

Code:

X-UI-Policy=libtasknavigatorpolicy.so

to

Code:

#X-UI-Policy=libtasknavigatorpolicy.so

Then edit ~/.osso/hildon-desktop/tasknavigator.conf and change

Code:

X-Load=true

to

Code:

X-Load=false

Um. Yeah. OK

Maybe I'll just learn to love the Circle People and the Squarey Square icons

Or, you know, if you have time next week, maybe you can come up with something, right?

JoKe, jOkE

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	fiferboy	2008-03-14 , 20:47
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New version. Read the first post for details, and get it at the garage link in my sig.

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	qwerty12	2008-03-14 , 20:57
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@fiferboy

Nice release

Still missing are root and terminal functionality. As Jiri has mentioned, there is a problem with xterm which makes it so it does not launch with a command line option gracefully. I am looking at this. I would also like to find a way to enable root execution upon install, but I am not sure if this is easy or wise.

Would it be possible to add in the broken xterm functionality like cmd-navigator? I don't mind if root support isn't enabled on install but could a hack like cmd-navigator, to add a file to the sudo dir to allow personal menu to run root apps?

Btw: I know it sounds like I'm complaing all the time but I do really like personal menu but those features would mean a lot as at least 1/2 of the commands I use need them.

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	tso	2008-03-14 , 21:15
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im wondering what size icons thats used by the default contacts panel, as the 40 seems to small but the 64 seems to large...

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dvergin	2008-03-14 , 21:16
Posts: 65 \| Thanked: 21 times \| Joined on Feb 2008	#50

Originally Posted by fiferboy

New version. Read the first post for details, and get it at the garage link in my sig.

Based on past experiences with updates of running software, I took the precaution of going to Control Panel -> Panels and disabling Personal Menu, then updating it from the link provided in the first post of this topic, then re-enabling it.

Is this necessary. A clarification of this question in the first post would be nice: "be sure to disable before installing" or "okay to install this upgrade without disabling your current copy".

Great app. Much appreciated.