Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Greyghost: I am getting this too, although only on the second time I open it through the control panel. I will look at why this is happening and hopefully fix it soon.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Indeed, I can confirm that it works after a reboot. Thanks for all the work you've done on this. I love it!

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Anyone ever had trouble removing contacts and replacing it with Personal Menu on a N810. I unchecked contacts from showing nad told it to show Personal Menu but it doesn't work.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

I'm running 7.4 and for the first time in a while (1st time w/ this version) I tried to add a menu entry. Had lots of problems similar to those mentoned above: sudden crashs/closes + wrong icons appearing in config window (but they appear correctly in actual menu) and, most strange, when attemptng to add from list of apps, it duplicated another menu item incl. its icon.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Okay, I think I have found the problem. It seems to be to do with the bold headings in the application list. I will have a go at fixing or removing them. Thanks for all the reports.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

0.7-6 fixes two annoying problems. First, the control panel plugin no longer crashes. Second, editing items works perfectly again. There was a problem that caused duplicate entries or incorrect modifications when editing before.

It is now in the repos, on my garage page, and on the maemo.org downloads page.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Hehe, this is fun :p

http://i25.tinypic.com/2udugap.jpg

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

qwerty: You hacking on personal-menu? What does the screenshot with it running in scratchbox signify?

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

hehe, no :)

I pimped up my scratchbox for a while by installing Diablo in it. It means I got the panel applet and I could choose it. I don't know why I posted come think of it.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Okay, for people who want multiple Personal Menus, let me know if this suits your needs.

I have written a small shell script that will swap between two menu configurations so you can have multiple setups from a single Personal Menu button.

The script (which can probably be improved upon by someone with more script knowledge) is this:

Copy this into a file (I called it pm_swap.sh in my home directory) and run "chmod a+x pm_swap.sh" without the quotes from the terminal in that directory.

Then add an entry to Personal Menu with the following information:
Name: Menu swap
Executable: /home/user/pm_swap.sh

You can name it whatever you want and choose whatever icon you want.

Finally, from the terminal rename your personal_menu.rc file, like this:

Now when you click the Personal Menu button you will see a single entry inviting you to create your Personal Menu. Do so with whatever you want in it, and include another "Menu swap" entry like above.

When you are finished you will be able click "Menu swap" and it will pop-down the menu, pop it back up, and then switch over to your other configuration. It is not instantaneous, but it does not take too long either. For editing the menu configurations, just swap to whichever one you want to change, then invoke the "Personal Menu" plugin from the control panel.

Let me know if this is useful.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

fiferboy, this is GREAT. It does exactly what I wanted. It was easy to make the enhancement work, and it works very smoothly. You nailed it again.

THANKS!

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

is it anyone else that suspect that will turn into a second programs meny, only more configurable? only thing missing now is the option of sub-menus :P

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tso: You are right, this would be a good thing to do within Personal Menu. I could probably make it more seamless, too. Maybe (maybe) even adding optional password protection to any of the configurations.

Sub-menus have been on my todo for quite some time, but it would be a huge change and a LOT of recoding. I will probably get to this after a few more smaller releases.

I also need to add a more intuitive way of adding headings. People who don't read this thread often don't figure it out. I have a few more little ideas as well.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

YES! If one of the swaps could be password-protected and the other not -- that would be perfect.
Much less important to me now that there's the swap. But I know, that's just me.
What do you mean about "adding headings" -- what are you referring to?

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

GeraldKo: If you add an entry with a name but a blank executable (icon doesn't matter one way or the other) it is a heading, and is displayed differently (no icon, defaults to bold text but you can change the colour or font however you want)

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Help,

I followed your instructions to no avail...

Swap from within PM would not run (execution failed) unless I had the option run as root checked. With run as root it would say "swap" starting...but then nothing after the notification went away.

On the assumption that I have hosed the .personal_menu.rc, what should be in this file to start with.

PM 0.7-6

Thanks

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Snoshrk: try running your script from the terminal and see what the output is. Try:

Assuming you named it the same as mine.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Ok::o:I looked in the pm_swap.sh ::o: so much for being lazy and using NotePad++ on my desktop to create the script. Nothing like an extraneous ^M at the end of evey line.

I removed the ^M s and ran the script from the terminal. OK it works from the terminal...but not from the PM on the desktop?

Never mind... dXXm auto capitalization in the executable line.:o

Thanks fiferboy for your quick response and for a most excellent menu!

Matt

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu for Diablo
 

I upgraded to Diablo yesterday and while everything seemed to go relatively smoothly except for the automatic application reinstall (expected). I have ran into one major problem with Personal Menu though: I have a existing personal menu rc file and despite various changes to it via the configuration tool or vi, I am never able to get PM to display the contents. Clicking on the PM icon gives me a single line:
"Create your personal menu!"
Clicking on it brings up the expected configuration tool and all of my entries are there intact. I don't have any >, <, or & characters either and even after starting with a fresh installation and renaming the old configuration file it still does the same thing. It saves all changes but never shows them from the launcher icon.

Any ideas?

Larry

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Larry, that has never happened to me and I have been running Diablo for weeks. I just did the official Diablo upgrade yesterday, and everything is still fine. Try checking the permissions of your config file:

And make the the user ("user") and group ("users") are correct. Otherwise, maybe a reboot will help?

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 2299 Jun 25 13:26 .personal_menu.rc
I've rebooted several times for various reasons and it has never worked. Is there some way I can turn on logging/debugging output to see what's going on?

Thanks-
Larry

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Never mind.... It appears that it either does not like running out of internal flash or at least a /home/user directory mounted from a ext3-formatted SD card. I copied the entire FS to the SD card and now it works perfectly, booting from SD.

Thanks and sorry for the confusion,
Larry

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Hi
It seems personal menu settings don't get backed up when doing a device backup (including settings). I backed up before upgrading to diablo, but never got my settings for personal menu back.

Anyone else experience this?

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

can someone tell me exactly what to type as a command to run in personal menu to launch a specific file using the built in notes program the file is in the N810 Documents folder within a subfolder titled Notes and the filename is POF Msgs.txt i got it to launch a file in xournal just fine.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

First of all PM is awesome.

Secondly, I install Diablo update and the only thing that is wrong is that every 20-30 minutes the shell does a semi-crash and i loose PM - it reverts to the original Nokia icons/menus....which sucks.

This probably isn't a specific PM problem as nobody else has mentioned this. Does anybody have any ideas? I have noticed twice that a message has been displayed "email client failed" -probably a smoking gun?

I will re-install but would like to ask another question:

What is the location of the config file for PM? If i make a copy of this, i take it I won't have to create all of my menu again after a reinstall?

Thanks for your help.

Mrglass

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

The config file is in your home directory (/home/user) and is called ".personal_menu.rc"

The desktop reset has been discussed here before (http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...=desktop+reset) and there are a number of packages suspected of causing it. If you are running large statusbar clock, the newest version allows you to disable alarms, which has helped some people.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

For some odd reason whenever I try updating any the programs listed in your signature fiferboy (I'm guessing they're in maemo extras or extras-deval?). Anyway it keeps reporting installation file corrupted.

(I'm running Diablo)

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

I noticed Both PM and Large SB clock were updated. What were the fixes?
Also LSBC crashes the desktop now. I tried rebooting, power cycling,etc and the only thing that stabilized the desktop from immediate and constant desktop crashes was disabling LSBC.

Running Diablo.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

I have just promoted personal-menu, large-statusbar-clock, and countdown-home to diablo and chinook extras. These are the first versions released for diablo, even though the chinook versions worked fine for me.

combatdoc: If you have the extras-devel repository enabled, you have probably seen my updates from today. They are version bumps for the diablo repo (although there are some fixes like personal-menu should now back up properly, and pm and lsbc use autotools to build).

Oh, pm also has a new custom icon.
If lsbc is causing a problem crashing the desktop, try disabling alarms through the lsbc configuration (assuming you haven't already). This has been consistent in eliminating the problem.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Whatever it is, its realtively new because I had not had that issue until I installed the new version of LSBC today.

I'll try the alarm thing.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

just updated both personal menu and large-statusbar-clock.

My desktop crashed upon update. I re-enabled my panels, and it crashed again. repeat...crash. had to totally disable large-statusbar-clock as it would crash the desktop before even displaying in the status bar. I can't even get in to disable the alarms (they were disabled before I upgraded to the newest version). I'll try to uninstall and re-install. Just a heads-up to those that haven't upgraded yet

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

This is probably more suited to the "Large Statusbar Clock" thread, but I will address this here.

There was an issue with alarms in the briefly available version 0.7-5. This has been completely fixed in the now available 0.7-6. Please upgrade your extras repository and install the update.

I am sorry for any inconvenienced caused. 0.7-5 was available for less than 24 hours (and I fortunately forgot to promote that version to chinook extras) so hopefully not too many people were hit with this bug.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

Just to close out the sub-thread I seemed to start. The newest edition of LSBC resolved my desktop crashes. I keep alarms enabled. Future LSBC conversation will move to that thread.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

This is probably not going to be a welcome request, but could you either bring back the old (flat) Personal Menu icon or make it an option? The new 3D gear icon looks out of place in the navigation bar.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

I agree, it would be nice if it could be customized to match whatever theme. :)

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

and while on the topic of icons, maybe resize the one used in the control panel.

it seems to be a bit larger then the rest and therefor push the two lowest ones below the title for the group below. and if any of the low ones are highlighted, the top ones gets pushed into the title above...

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I loved the old flat icon. This one is ok, but...

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

I will try to figure out how to best provide an option for the icon. If I can't figure that out, I think I will have to go with the one people like best.

As for the control panel icon, I will see what I can do. I am under the impression that the control panel selects the icon size (it seems 64x64), but I will double check to make sure I provide one the same size.

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

so, no one has any idea what the command is to type in to get personal menu to launch a Specific file in the built in notes program?

Re: [Updated] OS2008 Personal Menu
 

I believe somebody already found the solution. It worked for me anyway.