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gohan2091	2010-02-15 , 02:00
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Was using Catorise 0.7.3 but experienced duplicated icons in the all category for things like Calendar, Contacts, Photos etc. I uninstalled Catorise and put on version 0.7.4 and now I have 3 lots of duplicated icons...

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	Jaffa	2010-02-15 , 13:23
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Originally Posted by gohan2091

Was using Catorise 0.7.3 but experienced duplicated icons in the all category for things like Calendar, Contacts, Photos etc. I uninstalled Catorise and put on version 0.7.4 and now I have 3 lots of duplicated icons...

This sounds like the procedure outlined here should help:

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=122

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JCH	2010-03-19 , 04:32
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Originally Posted by Rob1n

I just edit my own menu files by hand - that way things end up exactly where I want them.

Can you give a simplified step by step on how to do this? Thanks. Catorize miscategorized several apps and I'd like to fix them.

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	Jaffa	2010-03-19 , 07:08
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Originally Posted by JCH

Can you give a simplified step by step on how to do this?

Be aware that this involves doing things as root and so may get your deivce into a situation where you have to reflash, or enable R&D mode to correct problems manually.

Install a text editor such as vim, QEmac, nano or Leafpad.
Install rootsh from Extras.
Open the file /opt/catorise/menu in that editor. For example, in X Terminal: vim /opt/catorise/menu
Each desktop file name is on a line of its own followed by the category in which you can place it. The valid values for the right-hand side are those defined in the Maemo 5 Developer Guide and _root.
After editing the file, open X Terminal and run:

Code:

sudo gainroot
/opt/catorise/catorise

Catorize miscategorized several apps and I'd like to fix them.

Do you man "miscategorised" or do you mean "didn't put them where I wanted". The former would be a bug (which I'd like to have reported), as Catorise just puts things where the application developer/packager decided (corresponding to bothe the Application Manager and maemo.org/downloads/ sections).

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JCH	2010-03-19 , 21:49
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Originally Posted by Jaffa

Do you man "miscategorised" or do you mean "didn't put them where I wanted". The former would be a bug (which I'd like to have reported), as Catorise just puts things where the application developer/packager decided (corresponding to bothe the Application Manager and maemo.org/downloads/ sections).

Thanks. I suppose it's "didn't put them where I wanted" in that case. For example, Angry Birds and some other games got placed in the Ovi folder instead of "Games", Evince (pdf reader) got placed into "Other" instead of "Office", QuickPanorama got placed into "Other" instead of "Multimedia" (where Camera and the media players are). If there were a way to manually move applications, it would be awesome.

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	Jaffa	2010-03-21 , 11:23
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Originally Posted by JCH

I suppose it's "didn't put them where I wanted" in that case.

Actually, it's a mix:

For example, Angry Birds and some other games got placed in the Ovi folder instead of "Games"

This is because I haven't yet found a way of categorising stuff in Ovi. I'd planned to do a web service which'd index the packages, unfortunately it's not viable due to the limited searching on Ovi. However, it gets worse...

QuickPanorama got placed into "Other" instead of "Multimedia" (where Camera and the media players are)

Now that Ovi is delivering random debs over HTTP, rather than through a repository, it's now impossible to distinguish an Ovi installed application from a random deb you've installed; however they still have Section: user/hidden.

I'm trying to get in contact with some folks at Forum Nokia and Ovi to see about exposing some kind of machine-readable Ovi API.

Evince (pdf reader) got placed into "Other" instead of "Office",

How did you install Evince? Is it this version in extras-devel? If so, I'll have a look - it could be that it's got a Categories line in its .desktop file which is overriding the one from the package.

If there were a way to manually move applications, it would be awesome.

See above :-)

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	Darkwolf	2010-03-25 , 09:00
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Catorise. Definitely.
So far and from what I can see, all my applications and games are in the right place and it all feels logical where to find things back under what category. I love it!

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	msa	2010-03-25 , 11:08
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i havent tried mymenu, but when reading that the author has to add every app to the sub-menus by himself i dont think this will be kept up-to-date for too long.

anyway, i dont like the custom-icons that are used in mymenu, so i got catorise.
its not perfect, for example the ovi-menu keeping all games from ovi-store, which technically may be right, but odd when there is a games-menu as well.

a solution may be to rename the ovi-menu to "ovi & games" and group the ovi- and game-menu together.

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JCH	2010-03-26 , 03:13
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Originally Posted by Jaffa

How did you install Evince? Is it this version in extras-devel? If so, I'll have a look - it could be that it's got a Categories line in its .desktop file which is overriding the one from the package.

Thanks for the reply. I didn't install it from Extras - Dev. I installed it from Extras.

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	Jaffa	2010-03-28 , 17:23
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Originally Posted by JCH

Thanks for the reply. I didn't install it from Extras - Dev. I installed it from Extras.

Thanks. The problem was because Evince's .desktop file was owned by evince-common, whereas the user-facing package was evince. I've added some heuristics to try variants of the package name which will deal with this case.

0.8.1 is on its way to extras-devel now and will, at some point, be available in -testing and Extras and fixes this bug (tested with Evince itself ;-)).

Thanks for reporting it!

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