An idea for the menu

[Matt x]

I see what you're saying now.  I personally wouldn't find that useful, 
but I suppose some might.  I have no problem with this as long as 
there's an option to turn it off : ) (not just the display, of course; 
the whole process so it doesn't take up resources.  That was probably 
obvious.)

On 06/21/2011 08:49 PM, Pedro Ferreira wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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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