An idea for the menu

[Pedro Ferreira]

Isn't that dialog just for executing commands (you have to know what you're
trying to run)?

The idea would be for it to search for more things than that. At least I
normally like to have a search like that, not sure about others though.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Matt x <edelstahlratte at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?
> >
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