Hello Manzn...me again.
I just updated to Version 0.4. of mymenu.
I got also a error:
Preparing to replace mymenu 0.2.20100101 (using mymenu-0.4.20100103_armel.deb) ...
update.desktop cleaned
Stopping hildon-desktop
Starting hilden-desktop
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/dpkg/info/mymenu*': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing mymenu-0.4.20100103_armel.deb (--install):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
mymenu-0.4.20100103_armel.deb
Let me ask again which mechanisms are used to determine the folder an application goes to? Is it hard-wired? Does it try to read Category-information from the desktop-file? ...?
at the moment it is hardcoded in the hilden.menu under /etc/xdg/menus - there are no Category-Infos in the .desktop files at this moment - mayby in the future
@dosenblech pls download v.04 again and install it - this was the uninstallscript
at the moment it is hardcoded in the hilden.menu under /etc/xdg/menus - there are no Category-Infos in the .desktop files at this moment - mayby in the future
This is certainly a chicken-egg problem. No developer will ever put Categories in his .desktop-files if they go unused on the N900.
But if only one applications/launcher such as yours starts using them... You could start a revolution.
Anyway, once you allow users to move around applications, you need a place to store the current location of the app. The .desktop file is a good place for this... So why not write to the .desktop file in case it doesn't already include a category (or in case the category needs to be changed) and then alwaysread from the .desktop file when you have to determine where to put an application?
For the list of proper categories (Appendix A of the Menu Spec) and the format of .desktop files, see Desktop Entry Spec and the Desktop Menu Spec. It's better to use this proven (and widely-supported) category system than to invent a new one, and applications ported from the Linux Desktop most likely already have a proper category entry.
Oh, and as some other people have already pointed out, please gettextize your program and publish the source and ideally link the source repo to Transifex, so community members from all over the world can start submitting translations for your application Publishing the source is really more helpful than you might think.
