An idea for the menu

[Pedro]

Yes, you could have an option and let the user decide what he/she wants.

On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:26:10 +0100, Matt x <edelstahlratte at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> 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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