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Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

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Originally Posted by aspidites (Post 467470)

I imagine you've figured this out by now, but anything in the ovi repo is categorized under "user/hidden" which is why they aren't getting put into the correct categories. Perhaps you could scrape the ovi store, or use RPC/JSON?

Indeed, that's the plan. Is there an RPC/JSON API? If not, I've already worked out how to do the screen scraping; but something more robust is desirable.

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Originally Posted by nex (Post 467512)

Just installed it, looks great. Will manual edits to /opt/catorise/menu to change the categories of some apps be overwritten in future updates, or is there a more preferred way to do this?

/opt/catorise/menu can be edited to shuffle things around and they won't get overwritten (unless you put them in other or an invalid section).

Once edited, you can run - as root - /opt/catorise/catorise to regenerate.

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Originally Posted by D-Iivil (Post 468098)

So we need somekind "refresh the menu" -button or otherwise it should be done manually by some background process?

It's supposed to be done on application install/uninstall using dpkg triggers and, indeed, it works for me. If you install something using apt-get, as root, in X Terminal does it show a line of the form:

Code:

Catorise: Updating menu structure...

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

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Originally Posted by TNiga (Post 468296)

I installed Caterise and it seems to work fine otherwise but every time I reboot my device the theme changes partially to default. By partially I mean that the background images are kept but all the colors and such are back to default blue. Nice app though, customizable icons would be nice.

the theme keep changing to blue default is a bug in ovi store themes

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

v0.0.2 is on its way to Extras-devel. Changelog:

Ignore location of 'other' items when reloading cached menu.
Add an 'Ovi' category pending better categorisation of Ovi-sourced items.
Fix theme handling; credit also to Marcin Juszkiewicz for a patch to do the same.
Fix multi-sectioned .desktop files (e.g. Web); credit also to hrw again for a patch to do the same.

Upcoming work:

Use .desktop file categories, if present (the community chose the package sections on Maemo to align with the desktop menu categories on purpose :-))
Try and register a DBus service to pick up theme changes.
Use the localisation strings from App Manager (although wrapping is an issue in the application menu; in that it doesn't).
Further Ovi categorisation work.
Work out why some people get "More..." ordered alphabetically.
Work out why auto-rerun on application install/uninstall isn't working for some people.

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

You could just get the info through apt-cache show $pkg-name :)

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

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Originally Posted by twoboxen (Post 467572)

...I hope that Nokia has considered addressing the existing poor state of application organization in an official capacity.

As I understand it, PR1.2 will eliminate "More" and put all installed applications on one, long, scrollable, "page". Actually grouping applications will be Fixed in Harmattan.

Yeah, we've hit that point already. Whee.

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

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Originally Posted by ruskie (Post 468314)

You could just get the info through apt-cache show $pkg-name :)

What info? That's exactly what Catorise does for applications from Extras; however applications from Ovi only have a section of user/hidden and no additional categorisation information AFAICS.

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

I thought it was hidden/whatevercategory

And shouldn't the category for the app be in the desktop file anyway?

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

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Originally Posted by ruskie (Post 468422)

I thought it was hidden/whatevercategory

No. Level, Bounce Evolution and Angry Birds all have Section: user/hidden. All, apart from Leve have Priority: optional too, FWIW.

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And shouldn't the category for the app be in the desktop file anyway?

Can be. But I'm not aware of a single Maemo application which does so at the moment.

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

Amazing Application! :-) Thank you so much for it!

Re: Catorise: auto-sort applications menu

Hmm is this also reversible?