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releng:4.10:roadmap:xfce4-appfinder [2011/05/30 12:41] – [Other Ideas] nick | releng:4.10:roadmap:xfce4-appfinder [2011/12/13 12:54] – [Simple Extensions] nick | ||
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The idea is to merge the current appfinder and xfrun4 into 1 application that can do it all; but better. To get this working in a fast way a number of custom tree- and list-models need to be written that all work with the same data, which is all loaded in threads and inserted in idles, to keep the interface responsive. | The idea is to merge the current appfinder and xfrun4 into 1 application that can do it all; but better. To get this working in a fast way a number of custom tree- and list-models need to be written that all work with the same data, which is all loaded in threads and inserted in idles, to keep the interface responsive. | ||
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+ | See the [[design: | ||
Completed: 0% \\ | Completed: 0% \\ | ||
Assignee: Nick\\ | Assignee: Nick\\ | ||
Difficulty: Hard | Difficulty: Hard | ||
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+ | ===== Status ===== | ||
+ | The IDs are prefixed with //A// for // | ||
+ | The status cells are color coded: | ||
+ | * a //white// background means the feature is not implemented yet, | ||
+ | * a //green// background means the feature is supported, | ||
+ | * a //orange// background means the feature is being worked on, | ||
+ | * a //grey// background means the feature is partially working but is not developed any further. | ||
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+ | | **ID** | **Description** | **nick/ | ||
+ | | B01 | Open exo-desktop-item-edit? | ||
+ | | B02 | Items not visible on start in expanded mode. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I01 | Store settings in Xfconf | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I01.1 | Window size and pane position. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I01.2 | Last category? | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I02 | Investigate dbus daemon, profiling shows a lot of time is spend in starting Gtk (theme/ | ||
+ | | I03 | Save successfully launched commands | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I04 | Simple extension framework. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I04.2 | Simple editor. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I04.3 | Support custom icons. | -- | | ||
+ | | I04.4 | Do we need this in expanded view as well, like Jannis' | ||
+ | | I05 | Garcon menu reloading support. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I06 | (icon) theme changes: reload cached pixbufs. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I07 | Bunch of clever key combinations to speed-up navigation. | -- | | ||
+ | | I08 | Obey show-image-on-button setting for launch button. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I09 | Sort custom commands before desktop-file commands in the completion. | @palegreen: Done | | ||
+ | | I10 | xfrun4 script for easy migration in 4.8, make xfce4-appfinder expand by default. | -- | | ||
===== Implement Modes ===== | ===== Implement Modes ===== | ||
It will have 2 modes: | It will have 2 modes: | ||
- | * Quick run dialog: like with xfrun4, but also includes the $PATH and known desktop files + command history. | + | * Quick run dialog: like with xfrun4, but also includes the known desktop files + command history. |
- | * Finder dialog: to show the complete appfinder, like in 4.8 (with applications and their categories) but also favorites, and commands(-history). | + | * Finder dialog: to show the complete appfinder, like in 4.8 (with applications and their categories) but also the command |
It will therefore also install 2 desktop files: "Run Program..." | It will therefore also install 2 desktop files: "Run Program..." | ||
- | ===== Simple Extensions | + | ===== Custom Actions |
- | + | A bit like the Thunar custom actions, it is also possible to parse commands you type in the launch entry. It has 2 modes to match commands: | |
- | It should be fairly easy add new " | + | * Match by prefix. This allows to add [[https:// |
- | + | * Match by regular expression. This way complex | |
- | * Match by expression: | + | |
- | * "b < | + | |
- | * match email and webaddress locations. | + | |
- | * Provide alternative 'launchers' that will showup in a menu while you type a string. | + | |
- | * Open " | + | |
- | * Open " | + | |
===== Other Ideas ===== | ===== Other Ideas ===== | ||
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* Panel plugin that can do the same as the Alt+F2 dialog (which will also obsolete the verve plugin). Might be a good alternative to searching in the applications menu. | * Panel plugin that can do the same as the Alt+F2 dialog (which will also obsolete the verve plugin). Might be a good alternative to searching in the applications menu. | ||
* Do not store commands that failed to execute. | * Do not store commands that failed to execute. | ||
- | ===== Discussion Points ===== | + | |
- | * Do we want this to run as a daemon in the background, which xfrun4 does currently. If implemented properly, the instances can all share the same data set and everything will feel more responsive. On the other hand, more data is loaded then xfrun4 did, so it might be more memory hungry. Probably the sanest way is to provides a dbus service (like terminal) and the 2nd instance will spawn from the running one. Then we can always make it optional to keep a daemon running. | + | |