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=Bug reports & suggestions={{/flash}}If you have a bug to report or a suggestion that you want to make, first read what's already on this page as well as , the [[/archive|archives]], and the [[FMenu/FAQ|FAQ]] to see if your question has already been answered, and if not, click the '''+''' at the top of the page (next to the '''edit''' tab) and tell me about it! I will get back to you here and appreciate your feedback.

=Thank you= Problem with ZIP archive? ==Not a bug report (though mine's been [[#Random_Quitting.3F|disappearing]] too occasionally), but I want to thank you for this fantastic app. Now I can be sure to be distracted by Facebook at any time of day, without even opening my browser! Facebook really will cost me my degree!

Feel free to remove this; I just wanted to say thanks! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Smiler_jerg smiler] 08:16, 11 May 2007 (BST):Thanks for the kind words. I can't open really wish the crashes would stop, but I will integrate infinite sessions into the archive—StuffIt Expander 10 stalls approximately 95% through and doesnnext release so that at least it won't start again, and StuffIt Expander 11 returns an error. Is there a place for me be necessary to download log into the app that's not compressed? each time you start it up. [[User:129.137.158.156Lensovet|129.137.158.156lensovet]] 1603:0636, 29 January 11 May 2007 (ESTEDT)

:Never mind, it seems I got a bad download from the link on the wiki. It worked the next time I tried it. [[User:129.137.158.156|129.137.158.156]] 16:18, 29 January 2007 (EST)::Hm, that's weird, but I strongly discourage anyone from using Stuffit at all. Mac OS X's built-in BOMArchiveHelper.app does the job much better. Happy to hear that you were able to resolve the problem, however.[[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 21:04, 29 January 2007 (EST) == Friends opting out of Terms of Service and Update frequency == I have three questions. First, exactly what effect does it have when a friend unchecks the Terms of Service box? Will FMenu not even be able to tell me when they poke or message me? Second, is there any way I can tell which friends have opted out of this? My third question is how frequent is "too frequent" for the update frequency? How frequently can I have it update without hitting the request limit? Thanks!:Here we go!:#If the friend unchecks this box, they are completely invisible to the program. That means that anything about ''them'' is inaccessible, like their profile and their status. However, when they poke ''you'', this is still accessible, because it is ''your'' information that's retrieved to find out the number of current pokes. So anything they do to you is available, because your info is retrieved, but anything they do to their profiles is not.:#Yes, there is. click on the arrow at the right of the text field in the Quicklaunch panel. That lists all the friends that are available to you through the app <s>(in a random order, unfortunately)</s>, which are alphabetized by first name as of version 1.5.:#This is essentially a guess-and-check process. As of version 1.4, it appears that 7 seconds is in fact the most frequent update interval. I personally had it running with 6 seconds, but that would randomly give me incorrect notifications.:Hope that clears things up a bit!Bug reports &nbsp;[[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 14:40, 3 February 2007 (EST) == FMenu and Growl notifications =suggestions= Great app, but a couple of suggestions. 1. It would be nice if you could click on the Growl notifications and be taken to the relevant page, e.g. if my friend updates a status and I click, it goes to her page or if someone posts on the wall, it takes me there. 2. The menu icon should also indicate whether people have posted or not. Perhaps by colour or counter?:#Thanks! The first one is definitely something I will be looking into, hopefully soon.:#As for the second one, I'm not exactly sure what you mean. What do you mean by "whether people have posted"? Posted what? Wall posts? Please clarify...thanks again! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 14:47, 11 February 2007 (EST)Basically, I think the Fmenu icon should have status indications. So if someone posts on your wall, it would be nice to have a number or something appear by or on the icon to let you know.:I see, so you want the updates to happen not only through Growl, but also through some change in the icon, correct? This can be set in the preferences for the unread messages, unseen pokes, upcoming events, friend requests; i figured the wall post counter would not be of much use since most people probably have hundreds of posts, but I can definitely add it if you think it will be useful. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:26, 14 February 2007 (EST)

How about auto updates? * I would like to be able to choose which notifications I receive.. for example Idon'm pretty sure theres t want to see profile updates. If this is already a cocoa plugin which helps with that (Adiumfeature, cyberduck and others use I can't find it) . [--[[User:21297.8587.20111.10056|21297.8587.20111.10056]] 0417:1432, 14 February 2007 23 July 2008 (ESTEDT)]:Yes, **Choosing which notifications you get is done via the Growl preference pane. You can open iteasily from FMenu's called Sparkle, but the setup for it is a bit intensive. It will happen eventually thoughpreferences. [[User:Lensovet|lensovetlensove†]] 1100:5532, 14 February 2007 2 November 2009 (ESTUTC)

== Duplicate notifications Updating status ==

I keep getting the same notifications over and over. I have moved my interval up to 30 seconds thinking it It would be cool if you could have been cause by too frequent of an interval but I am continuing to see duplicate messagesupdate your own status using this program. It':<s a series of 5 or 6 messages>This would indeed be very cool, same messages each but unfortunately implementing such functionality is at this timeagainst the Facebook API's [http://developers. I have the exact same problem and it is the same two updates from the same exact personfacebook.com/tos.php Terms of Service]. You should e-mail them at developers-help@facebook.com to let them know that you want such a feature so that they are aware of the interest. [[User:70.158.150.128Lensovet|70.158.150.128lensovet]] 1516:2457, 13 21 February 2007 (EST)</s>:If the update you're getting This is "XXX has updated his profile", that means that they are actually updating their profile that frequently. If now possible with extended API functions and I will look into implementing it's something else, let me know. Thanksfor the next release. [[User:Lensovet|lensovetlensove†]] 0019:4832, 13 February 2007 18 April 2008 (ESTEDT)

The one == QuickLaunch Cursor == When using the QuickLaunch feature it would be amazing if when you either click on the menu item, or use the keyboard shortcut that keeps repeating for me the cursor appears within the text box. Reducing the use of the mouse or trackpad is "XXXX wrote always a new note" and "XXXX has updated her profile" nice thing. It is always Additionally the ability to launch QuickLaunch without having to click on the same person and FMenu icon would be amazing. If I've looked at their profile and it doesn't look like it's changing could set a global OS X shortcut to medo this or something. My life would be complete. Or perhaps some kind of quicksilver intergration with the QuickLaunch feature. Oh the possibilities. --[[User:70Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 17:14, 2 April 2007 (EDT):Hey there, the text box should now gain focus as soon as the QuickLaunch panel gets focus as of the latest version (2.1585).150I'm still looking at implementing a system-wide shortcut for getting Quicklaunch to appear, however.128Hopefully in the next version :) [[User:Lensovet|70.158.150.128lensovet]] 1501:2349, 13 February 5 July 2007 (ESTEDT)

I can verify the above problem. I have one friend that has consistently showed up as "XXXX has updated her profile" and "XXXX wrote a new note." They show side by side, often == Status Updates with any other events from other friends. Its been showing up nonstop since I downloaded it two days ago. She only has one note from last year, so she hasn't written a new note every 5 minutes over the last two days. --[[User:146.151.11.242|146.151.11.242]] 03:24, 14 February 2007 (EST):Wow, I just started getting this myself. Will def look into it. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 11:54, 14 February 2007 (EST):Haha, now I get New note wrote a new note or profile updated his profile. --[[User:65.82.99.3|65.82.99.3]] 12:16, 14 February 2007 (EST)Profile Pictures? ==

::Just curiousSo, to all who have reported this problemobviously, what happens if you restart Growl shows the FMenu app (or choose Logout from icon in the menu and log back in)? Thanksnotification... [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 21:38, 14 February 2007 Would it be possible to change that icon (ESTin the Growl notification)::Do try that as an interim solution, but I think that I've found to the Facebook profile picture of the problem. Apparently person the information sent by Facebook's API would sometimes contain profiles with a blank "name" field, and I think this notification is what was setting off the erroneous notifications. I'll be testing a [http://fmenu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fmenu/UpdateMethods.mmreferring to?r1=16&r2=19&sortby=date possible fix] to see if the problem goes away. I should have a new release out this weekend. Stay tuned and thanks for the reports! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 22:28, 14 February 2007 (EST)

During normal use of FMenu sometimes Also, personally, I don't care much for the loading of "now" that is inserted in the menu can take a minute plus during which when you mouse over status update messages. I think it throws off the menubar and you see the spinning beachball flow of death. --[[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 12:14some updates, 14 February 2007 (EST):I will look into this, but isince people don'm changing the heading since the app never actually crashest expect it to be there. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 13:49, 14 February 2007 (EST)

:HaBut seriously, this is truean amazingly great app, my apologies and it's head-and-[[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 15:50, 15 February 2007 (EST)shoulders above the other amateur-ish work that's being done with the Facebook API. Thanks.

--Thomas Duesing--[[User:138.38.226.204|138.38.226.204]] 22:48, 13 May 2007 (EDT):Thanks for the encouragement! I've just checked in a change that allows you to choose the phrase inserted into status update messages [http://fmenu.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fmenu/GNotifier.mm?r1=47&r2= Solution 46&pathrev=47 to be anything you want].:As for your authentication problem other suggestion, it's definitely doable, but I think I'll hold off that for a bit. Currently I'm working on crash-proofing the app (and one feature request ==preventing memory leaks), ignoring bad results coming from the server, and supporting infinite sessions so you have to log in once...forever. I'm also adding upcoming events and groups to Quicklaunch. Look for a new release this week!:Thanks again. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 02:03, 21 May 2007 (EDT)::The release is out and will let you change the phrase used in the notification as I mentioned. Using photos from friends' profiles is something I will look into for the next version. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 01:49, 5 July 2007 (EDT)

Thanks,Aslam:RightHi -- I posted this over on the Facebook FMenu Users page, Sparkle requires an RSS feed with release info thoughsorry for the reposting, which is why but it will take a bit to set up's unclear where bug reports should go.. I do plan on implementing it though. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 17:15, 14 February 2007 (EST)

When I have FMenu running, there is a 27-=-Follow up:28 second delay between initiating sleep and when the system actually starts sleeping. The screen goes blank, but the mouse cursor remains on the screen. After the delay it starts sleeping normally. Without FMenu running, sleep is immediate.

I'm so glad to hear you're going to be using KeychainNo messages in system or user logs. Here is my configuration: PB G4, OS X 10. It's great to see developers use the awesome tools that Apple gives us4. I'm sure you've already found this recently updated document but just in case11, I found info on programming with the Keychain here: http://developerFMenu 3.apple0, Growl 1.com/documentation/Security/Reference/keychainservices/keychainServRef1.pdf4

Secondly, you probably know about this also but I found the easiest way to setup an RSS feed was to use iWeb (part of iLife) and create a Blog page. iWeb automatically creates an RSS feed for you and then you can use that to regularly update the feed. If that doesn't provide enough customization, then tools like PodcastMaker from potionfactory.com or FeedForAll (http://www.feedforall.com/feedforall-mac.htm) or one of the other RSS Feed builder tools that are available for OSX might be helpful== Bug 3.1 ==

== As of 10th June 2010, roughly, launching FMenu Going Nuts ==3.1 via login items or through normal launch causes the application to hang.The icon is grey and the QuickLaunch bar appears.Sometimes this flashes constantly and then dies after 5 minutes or so.Activity monitor on Intel says nothing is wrong, but G5 says that application is not responding.I have tried deleting the pref and the application and reinstalling, but nothing improves.This also has an issue on my G5 Mac.

A couple of timesWas checking little snitch activity, I have had FMenu go nuts and start giving me notifications about all my friends, the same three or four notifications (new note, updated status, etc.), even though they had done none of the above. One time, it happened right when I plugged my MacBook into an external monitor. This went on ''ad infinitum'', repeating notifications. The notifications stickied, and even though I turned both FMenu and Growl off, they kept coming. It bogged my system down so much (and kept notifying) that I had is trying to do a hard shut-down of communicate with the MacBookapi. I've had FMenu disabled sincefacebook. --Carl Peterson:I'm sorry to hear that you had such bad problems. I don't know why they were sticking; none of the notifications are set to sticky by default. I will be releasing a new version soon that will hopefully eliminate these repeated notifications once and for allcom, and hope that you will give it a try and let me know how it works for you. Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 02:50, 21 February 2007 (EST)::::I can hardly wait for but then after some minutes the update. I've considered not using FMenu until et services stops the duplicates are fixed, but it's just so darn handyconnection. [[User:Loudestnoise|Loudestnoise]] 12:39, 21 February 2007 (EST) == Updating status == It would be cool if you could update your own status using this program.:This would indeed be very cool, but unfortunately implementing such functionality is at this time against the I have Facebook API's [http://developers.facebook.com/tos.php Terms of Service]. You should e-mail them at developers-help@facebook.com to let them know Notification installed aswell and that you want such a feature so that they are aware of the interestis working fine. [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 16:57, 21 February 2007 (EST)

Great work with this app. I've been using the Facebook Toolbar for Firefox but I think I like this better. My question is if there's any way to pick NOTE! A system restart made the browser you'd like to use with FMenu. My main browser is Firefox login window appear and I would love for links to open in that instead of Safari. I didn't see anything in the FMenu/Growl preferences so I'm guessing there's no way to change it from Safari currently. Keep up the good work.:FMenu just uses the default browser set by the system; this preference can be changed from Safari. Open Safari, then open its Preferences. In the General tab, the first item there should be "Default Web Browser:" – simply choose Firefox from that list. Thanks! [[User:Lensovet|lensovet]] 12:35, 22 February 2007 (EST)::Awesome. You would think something like that would be in the system preferencesall works now. Thanks!