Talk:FMenu

FMenu version 3.1 was released on January 17, 2010 and includes stability improvements, UI changes to keep up with site updates, and full Snow Leopard compatibility. Note that there are now separate downloads for users of 10.4 and everyone else.

It is now 2023 and Facebook's API has changed significantly such that this app no longer works. The way that people use Facebook has changed dramatically as well. Growl no longer exists. Perhaps one day this app will come back — or not.

Bug reports & suggestions

If you have a bug to report or a suggestion that you want to make, first read what's already on this page, the archives, and the 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.

FMenu and Growl notifications

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?

1. Thanks! The first one is definitely something I will be looking into, hopefully soon.
2. 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! 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. lensovet 22:26, 14 February 2007 (EST)

Future Features

Not sure if this is feasible, but it would be fantastic if you could do things through the program, e.g. poke specified people. Or if that wasn't possible, it should be fairly easy to link to the relevant page - the /poke.php? bit makes that easy, right? Just a thought. --82.43.144.131 18:48, 12 February 2007 (EST)

This is definitely doable. I'm thinking of using keyboard modifiers for each action – for example, pressing option-enter instead of enter to send a message, ctrl-enter to poke, etc. What do you think? lensovet 20:47, 12 February 2007 (EST)

This is similar to the question above I think, but would it be possible to make the keyboard shortcuts usable without having to click on the menu icon ie. being able to open the quicklaunch panel (which i think is great) --70.158.150.128 15:24, 13 February 2007 (EST)

I really want this as well, so I will try to get it into the next release. It is definitely doable. lensovet 23:08, 12 February 2007 (EST)

You know what would also be super great, the ability to have the cursor automatically appear inside the QuickLaunch Panel when it is launched, and when you complete a search that the panel would disappear. Then my life would be complete. --Loudestnoise 16:51, 15 February 2007 (EST)

Also, possibly a Quicksilver plugin? that would be awesome. --82.43.144.131 04:45, 13 February 2007 (EST)

How about auto updates? I'm pretty sure theres a cocoa plugin which helps with that (Adium, cyberduck and others use it) --212.85.20.100 04:14, 14 February 2007 (EST)

Yes, it's called Sparkle, but the setup for it is a bit intensive. It will happen eventually though. lensovet 11:55, 14 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 Facebook API's 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. lensovet 16:57, 21 February 2007 (EST)

Random Quitting?

So during normal usage of my computer I will look up to the menu bar only to see that FMenu is missing. I never quit it, but it just disappears from my menu bar. Loudestnoise 20:12, 27 February 2007 (EST)

Does quicklaunch remain visible or no? If not, then that means that FMenu is crashing. Otherwise, it could be that just the icon is disappearing. Which is it? thanks... lensovet 23:03, 27 February 2007 (EST)

I'm not sure what you mean by quicklaunch remaining visible. The icon just disappears and according to activity monitor nothing named FMenu is running. Loudestnoise 01:09, 2 March 2007 (EST)

So yeah, it's crashing. Is it still happening on a regular basis, or did it just happen once? lensovet 01:12, 2 March 2007 (EST)

Sorry for not checking back, I can provide no more details really. It's quite random. I usually don't notice it has happened until I look up to the menu bar and see that the icon is gone. Loudestnoise 23:43, 24 March 2007 (EDT)

This happens to me as well, fairly regularly, about 2/3 times per day. --82.43.144.131 13:15, 3 March 2007 (EST)

Me too, 10+ times per day! 70.176.17.62 22:48, 4 March 2007 (EST)

Please try the latest release and see if this problem still exists. Thanks! lensovet 22:29, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

On all day so far --82.43.144.131

Photo comments fiction

Occasionally, say every hour or two, a growl thingy pops up saying "You have new photo comments", when I don't. I appreciate it trying to make me feel wanted, but there is an inevitable let-down when I find out it's been lying to me. Why?? I advise you to teach your program the value of honesty :p --82.43.144.131 13:19, 3 March 2007 (EST) PS can you put back the total pokes thing which was in 1.6 i think

Two things: what's your update frequency, and when the popup does show up, what is the number of photo comments shown in the menu? Thanks. lensovet 14:35, 3 March 2007 (EST)

Update frequency of 7 seconds, and it always stays at 30 photo comments, but I don't think that's true. --82.43.144.131 20:05, 3 March 2007 (EST)

No need to think twice – just click on the menu item and compare it to the counter shown at the top of the page. It might be off by 2 or so. So you're saying that it always says 30, even after the popup notification?

Hmm, this is odd. I have 30 pictures overall. Facebook says I have 30 picture comments, but in fact i have 20 comments - there is one picture with 10 comments, which is reported twice in the 'My photo comments' bit - strange, no? So your program is reporting what Facebook says, but facebook is wrong. But in answer to your question, yes it always says 30. Oh wait. Ok it just popped up a growl picture comments message now. Now it says I have 103 photo comments. Now it's back to 30. Wha? --82.43.144.131 10:46, 4 March 2007 (EST)

AHA! Thanks. That makes sense – the 103 is actually an error. I'll fix this in the next release, sounds good. lensovet 13:59, 4 March 2007 (EST)

Cool. could you also put 'total pokes' back in the menu please, and fix the random quitting (If that's possible)??? cheers. Do you want a crash log? or some other kinda log for the random quit? --82.43.144.131 17:35, 4 March 2007 (EST)

Unfortunately, Facebook has eliminated 'total pokes' functionality a few weeks back (and in fact, the photo comments will cease functioning on March 22 as well). As for random quitting – I'm guessing that this is due to memory leaks which I'm currently trying to resolve, but if you know how to get the crash log, feel free to paste it into /crashlog. Thanks! lensovet 19:23, 4 March 2007 (EST)

Ah right. What I think is the crash log is there now. --82.43.144.131

The crashes should be fixed in 2.1 – please give it a try and let me know if it's any better! lensovet 22:29, 31 March 2007 (EDT)

Hasn't happened yet! --82.43.144.131 16:58, 2 April 2007 (EDT)

login problem

When i launch FMenu and open the Login window, all that shows up is a blank window. I see a load status bar load on the bottom left but nothing shows up. Tried keeping it up for hours but nothing shows up ever.

Massive update splurge

New version is much improved! However, occasionally I get a flood of growl messages going off the bottom of the screen, 2 for what seems to be each of my contacts. i can't remember what they say, i'll try and get a screen cap. --82.43.144.131

et voilà - http://mickeymoose.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/notes.jpg --82.43.144.131 19:03, 2 April 2007 (EDT)

Thanks, I'm going to fix this in the next release (I know exactly why this happens...) lensovet 17:44, 8 April 2007 (EDT)

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 the cursor appears within the text box. Reducing the use of the mouse or trackpad is always a nice thing. Additionally the ability to launch QuickLaunch without having to click on the FMenu icon would be amazing. If I could set a global OS X shortcut to do this or something. My life would be complete. Or perhaps some kind of quicksilver intergration with the QuickLaunch feature. Oh the possibilities. --Loudestnoise 17:14, 2 April 2007 (EDT)

Several small problems

I keep getting a New Version Available Growl alert. When I select "Force Update Now" I just get the alert again an nothing is updated or downloaded. I have had to turn this notification off.

About FMenu does nothing, either. Finder tells me I have version 2.1.

Menu tells me I have "1 Shares in Inbox", but my account says otherwise.

Sorry about that, that was a slip-up of mine. However, please do download again as there were some changes I made (without releasing a new "version"). Sorry for the confusion... lensovet 00:41, 3 April 2007 (EDT)

Help from Fmenu screen capture

Mr. Borokhov:

I found your program FMenu on MacUpdate and have a question regarding the screen capture graphic provided entitled "Facebox-ss.png." What is the menubar program indicated by the musical note icon two positions to the right of the Fmenu icon? Is it some kind of iTunes controller? I have been looking for this icon for some time and would appreciate your help.

Thanks!

Peter Mellis

pedserdoc@mac.com

Hi there, it's not an iTunes controller but a plugin for last.fm that submits the songs I play to my last.fm account. You can find it at http://www.last.fm/tools/downloadplugin/?id=11

FMenu Crashes after login

Hi there,

Been using FMenu for a while, it's a great distraction! Now, however, it immediately quits after I log in. Seems to only happen when I log in using my profile, but not with a friend's. Here's what I get in the console. Any help would be appreciated!

2007-04-11 10:12:06.251 FMenu[22567] Performing full update 2007-04-11 10:12:06.383 FMenu[22567] got wall 2007-04-11 10:12:06.931 FMenu[22567] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><users_getInfo_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd" list="true"><user><uid>72600023</uid><wall_count>132</wall_count></user></users_getInfo_response> 2007-04-11 10:12:07.529 FMenu[22567] got notifications 2007-04-11 10:12:08.394 FMenu[22567] got all events 2007-04-11 10:12:08.403 FMenu[22567] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><notifications_get_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd"><messages><unread>0</unread><most_recent>1176214194</most_recent></messages><pokes><unread>0</unread><most_recent>0</most_recent></pokes><shares><unread>0</unread><most_recent>0</most_recent></shares><friend_requests list="true"></friend_requests><group_invites list="true"></group_invites><event_invites list="true"></event_invites></notifications_get_response> 2007-04-11 10:12:09.357 FMenu[22567] got upcoming events 2007-04-11 10:12:09.375 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x485e590 of class NSCFDate autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.375 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x441bd20 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.375 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4809460 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x3c3f30 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x48ef1f0 of class NSIdEnumerator autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1f314 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4418620 of class NSIdEnumerator autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1f154 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x48b4d80 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x61afc20 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x61afc80 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x61d24b0 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x61ea850 of class NSCFArray autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x442d1e0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x442c620 of class NSIdEnumerator autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x1f144 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.376 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4433560 of class NSConcreteMutableData autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.377 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x445f4c0 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.377 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4877310 of class NSCFString autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.377 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x441caa0 of class NSURL autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.377 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x3c99b0 of class NSURLRequest autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.378 FMenu[22567] *** _NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x4851560 of class NSURLConnection autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking 2007-04-11 10:12:09.651 FMenu[22567] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><events_get_response xmlns="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://api.facebook.com/1.0/ http://api.facebook.com/1.0/facebook.xsd" list="true"></events_get_response> 2007-04-11 10:12:10.374 FMenu[22567] got friend profiles Apr 11 10:12:10 Ana crashdump[22568]: FMenu crashed