Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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...

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

This sounds like the procedure outlined here should help:

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

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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.

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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.

1. Install a text editor such as vim, QEmac, nano or Leafpad.
2. Install rootsh from Extras.
3. Open the file /opt/catorise/menu in that editor. For example, in X Terminal: vim /opt/catorise/menu
4. 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.
5. After editing the file, open X Terminal and run:

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).

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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.

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

Actually, it's a mix:

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...

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.

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.

See above :-)

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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!

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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.

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

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!

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

Won't Nokia's future update release let the user customize the menu anyways...? So there's wouldn't be a need for MyMenu and Catorise?

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

PR1.2 will have a single level menu in which you can re-order things. It won't have sections into which items can be placed; and won't auto-categorise things.

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

Is there any way to simply create folders in the menu, and just drag and drop items into them...?

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

Simply put, No.

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

mymenu didn't work for me catorise is what i got running now its great but reorganizing is annoying and didn't work last time but still cool

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

have a problem on my N900 that is:

Uninstalling the catorize and most of my icons are gone, such as file management, backups and all the programs I have installed.

Even thought about reinstalling to see if catorize hand didst but know how, since creating a shortcut on the desktop manager, it does not open. Creates the shortcut but does nothing, and all the icons that are gone.

I have 1.2 installed pr.

Any idea?

Re: MyMenu vs. Catorise
 

It is not from Catorize, cos i just uninstalled it and everything is back to normal. You might installed some appl. from Exras-devel or testing which caused all these problems.

Try reboot and see, otherwise you have to uninstall on-by-one the appl. to figure out.

Best Luck