[Announce] ApMeFo (beta 0.9-5) - Create custom folders in your Application Menu - Page 27 - maemo.org

Hrw | # 261 | 2010-10-22, 12:12 | Report

@fms: not by me.

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Mentalist Traceur | # 262 | 2010-10-23, 17:20 | Report

Well this is amusing. I've had ApMeFo in a working state for a few days now. Last night I installed a new app (FileBox - decided I finally wanted a better file manager) and decided to move my File Manager icon in the menu to a folder, instead of having it in my main menu. Opened up ApMeFo, browsed to the right folder, then promptly closed ApMeFo, opened XTerm, browsed to the .menu file, and edited it in Vi.

For some reason, I've gotten attached to the command-line way. No moral of the story or anything of import. I just thought it might amuse some people to hear that after finally getting ApMeFo to work again, I ended up liking the command line way more, even if it's technically slower / more cumbersome.

That's not to say, Hrw, that your progress on ApMeFo is not appreciated. I still think your ApMeFo improvements are rather nice, and I can certainly envision plenty of use-cases where expediency or other considerations would make using the GUI approach more desirable. Plus, I'm probably one of the few people who enjoy the command line over the GUI.

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moepda | # 263 | 2010-10-27, 14:26 | Report

apmefo was ok on pr1.2 but updated to pr1.3 . now when i when click update folder it responds but doesnt update or give message about update.wondered if python problem as had qt4 experimental on pr1.2 but not on pr1.3 , conflicts so cant re-install and cant remove apmefo as dbusd scripts prevents removal

edit fixed... removed folders from pr1.2 and remade, all ok now...

Last edited by moepda; 2010-10-27 at 21:50. Reason: fixed

lemmyslender | # 264 | 2010-10-27, 20:35 | Report

I think I just stumbled on how to arrange the submenus on the main menu.

In hildon.menu, you can specify the order of apps in the <Layout> section. I don't think anyone had been able to arrange the submenu order. I just discovered if you use <Menuname>Name</Menuname> tag, you can order the submenus.

In other words we can set the order of apps and submenus.

Code:

<Include>
    <Filename>rtcom-call-ui.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>osso-addressbook.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>rtcom-messaging-ui.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>modest.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>extcalllog.desktop</Filename>
   </Include>

  <Layout>
    <Filename>rtcom-call-ui.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>osso-addressbook.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>rtcom-messaging-ui.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>modest.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>extcalllog.desktop</Filename>
    <Menuname>Games</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Media</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Network</Menuname>
    <Menuname>GPS</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Office</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Other</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Utilities</Menuname>
    <Menuname>System</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Debian</Menuname>
    <Menuname>More</Menuname>
  </Layout>

Perhaps one of you updating this can add this in to your version. At least it's here for anyone else to use as well.

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Mentalist Traceur | # 265 | 2010-10-28, 01:19 | Report

This was known since before ApMeFo was made.

But you're right, you CAN edit the order of things this way. And YES, it can be incorporated into ApMeFo. It just hasn't been yet, because, well, I guess it was deemed a mix of unnecessary and less-safe-than-editing-order-in-subfolders. *Shrug*

BTW, similar manual editing is how you can get subfolders in your folders. Just look at how the main menu includes folders, and then include what you want as subfolders in your folders the same way.

Do pay attention to what you change because if Hildon Menu gets messed up and fails to load, you'll have to get to the command line and fix everything from there.

Last edited by Mentalist Traceur; 2010-10-28 at 01:21.

pyther | # 266 | 2010-10-28, 02:14 | Report

Originally Posted by lemmyslender View Post

I think I just stumbled on how to arrange the submenus on the main menu.

In hildon.menu, you can specify the order of apps in the <Layout> section. I don't think anyone had been able to arrange the submenu order. I just discovered if you use <Menuname>Name</Menuname> tag, you can order the submenus.

In other words we can set the order of apps and submenus.

Code:

snip ---see original post---

Perhaps one of you updating this can add this in to your version. At least it's here for anyone else to use as well.

IMO a ever better solution. It will let you arrange what you want, and then anything else not listed, will be tacked on at the end.

Code:

  <Include><All/></Include> 

  <Layout>
    <Menuname>Games</Menuname>
    <Menuname>GPS</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Multimedia</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Net</Menuname>
    <Menuname>Utils</Menuname>
    <Menuname>System</Menuname>
    <Filename>rtcom-call-ui.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>osso-addressbook.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>rtcom-messaging-ui.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>osso-xterm.desktop</Filename>
    <Filename>hildon-control-panel.desktop</Filename>
  </Layout>

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lemmyslender | # 267 | 2010-10-28, 12:21 | Report

Sorry, I could have sworn I had tried several variations trying to get the submenus to work with the Layout tags.

The only other thing that I have found is to create a "Main" menu, which allows you to add and order apps in the main menu. Downside is that you get a submenu labeled "Main". However, if you rename Main.directory to Main.bak (or remove it altogether) the "Main" submenu disappears. ApMeFo can't edit it any more though. Submenus won't obey layout tags there either.

It should be possible to get ApMeFo to "see" the Main.hildon file so it can be edited and apps added/removed and layout changed.

@pyther I removed the <All/> tag from hildon.menu and created a "More" menu. Edited More.menu to included the <All/> tag and <OnlyUnallocated/> tag. This creates a More submenu much like PR1.0, and all new items go there instead of the main menu.

I prefer that as my main menu stays clean and constant, and new apps are easy to find. Once I decide to keep an app, I move it to the appropriate menu.

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Reflektorfalke | # 268 | 2010-11-07, 11:31 | Report

HI, ApMeFo stopped working for me since PR1.3 upgrade :-(

I can still create/delete folders but I can´t add apps into the folders anymore. When hitting the " + " button to get the list of apps for selecting the apps to be added to a folder nothing happens...

Anyone else having this issue or any ideas what I can do to resolve this?

Mentalist Traceur | # 269 | 2010-11-07, 17:35 | Report

Still works fine for me (though I just do it from the Terminal nowadays). Are you using the ApMeFo from the repository? Or from a few pages back in this thread?

If it's from the repository, did you install one of the programs that's been known to cause it to glitch by having a space in the wrong part of it's .desktop file? (Namely, if you reflashed to PR1.3, did you install Gas-Balls?)

First thing, you go to /usr/share/applications/hildon on your N900 (either from terminal - assuming you have rootsh installed - or from something like Filebox, etc). If you have gas-balls, open gas-balls.desktop and change the line that says:
Name = Gas-Balls
to
Name=Gas-Balls

If you don't have Gas-Balls, or that doesn't fix it, then go through all the other .desktop files in there, and make sure there's no spaces before and after the equal sign in the name line.

Or you can download the latest version made by Hrw - his version already fixed that bug.

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msa | # 270 | 2010-11-07, 17:38 | Report

will this ever reach extras?