An idea for the menu

[Matt x]

I think the place to add this would be to the Alt+F2 dialog (like
gnome2).  If it were added to the menu, I'd expect it to search among
the menu's .desktop files (which I don't think is necessary for most).

On 6/21/11, Pedro Ferreira <darkiiiiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, so I've been thinking of something that would be a pretty useful thing
> to have in xfce, I don't know if this has been brought up before, but
> anyway, here it is.
>
> The idea is to be able to search in the menu (ok, not the most impressive
> idea in the world :p - others have done it).
>
> Basically you would open the menu, and have the normal lists plus an input
> element, which would gain focus, so that if you started writing, it would
> clear the menu and bring the results of the search.
> Clicking for example the Esc key, would cancel the search, and bring back
> the lists of the menu.
>
> I've searched the plugins in xfce and I found one (linelight) which have
> more or less the same idea (but it doesn't seem to work that well). That
> program uses the locate command, which it could be also used here, so that
> it doesn't add too much complexity (I don't have much experience with it
> though, so I could be wrong).
>
> There could be some options to limit the results:
> - only show applications (from the PATH?) - similar to application finder
> - applications + folders (you could select which folders to search, and the
> depth within that folder)
> - applications + folders + files (everything basically... but probably less
> useful, unless you had some limitations of the folders, like above)
> So, what do you think?
>