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DaSilva | # 51 | 2010-01-04, 09:52 | Report

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post

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 always read from the .desktop file when you have to determine where to put an application?

That would be awesome!

fpp | # 52 | 2010-01-04, 12:12 | Report

Originally Posted by manzn View Post

Hello fpp,
pls can you enter follow command:
ls -r /opt/*
and post oder mail me the output

Sorry manz -- I'm at work and I forgot my N900 at home this morning, probably not enough awake on this first day of the year :-)

I'll do it this evening if no one beats me to it...

stobbsc | # 53 | 2010-01-04, 12:42 | Report

This looks like an awesome app. I can't wait for it to hit testing, the I'll be installing this asap :-)

Jaffa | # 54 | 2010-01-04, 14:55 | Report

Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post

This is certainly a chicken-egg problem. No developer will ever put Categories in his .desktop-files if they go unused on the N900.

You could use the sections which a user has found to get the app:

Code:

for i in *.desktop; do
  PKG=`dpkg -S "${i}"`
  SECTION=`apt-cache show "${PKG}" | grep ^Section: | cut -d' ' -f 2
}

This is useful for the user and also aligns with #3822.

Originally Posted by

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 always read from the .desktop file when you have to determine where to put an application?

Changing a third party package's files to shuffle things around isn't very polite.

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manzn | # 55 | 2010-01-04, 16:37 | Report

@jaffa thx nice input

@all i have a new version online - testet bei Tom

http://maemo.3ion.at/mymenu-0.4.1.20100104_armel.deb

nice testing - Tom means the update version is ok - plese give me a response :-D

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soleil | # 56 | 2010-01-04, 16:49 | Report

How can I know which version I have ? I can't find MyMenu in AppManager

manzn | # 57 | 2010-01-04, 16:55 | Report

@soleil

in xterm enter following command: dpkg -s mymenu | grep Version

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geneven | # 58 | 2010-01-04, 17:02 | Report

Wow, groovy! I guess the main menu is supposed to be the system of shortcuts you can put on the desktop, but this is very helpful.

soleil | # 59 | 2010-01-04, 17:27 | Report

My version is 0.4.20100103 and I can't update to 20100104 which the script update-menu of MyMenu

manzn | # 60 | 2010-01-04, 17:45 | Report

@soleil - the update-menu is only for the apps not for a update function for the debian package - you musst download the newest version and install it per xterm with dpkg -i mymenu-0.4.1.20100104_armel.deb

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