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Xfce4-appfinder 4.10 Roadmap
The idea is to merge the current appfinder and xfrun4 into 1 application that can do it all; but better.
Modes
If will have 2 modes. If you run xfce4-appfinder it will show a dialog somewhat equal to xfrun4 (but also includes the $PATH and known desktop files + command history) and an expander to show the complete appfinder, like in 4.8, with applications categories, favirites, and commands(-history).
It will therefore also install 2 desktop files: “Run Program…” (for in the toplevel menu) and “Application Finder” that spawns “xfce4-appfinder –finder”.
Extendable
It should be faily easy add new helpers for users, by an extension dialog, like the Thunar custom actions.
- Match by expression:
- “b <searchstring>” to search in Bing .
- match email and webaddress locations.
- Provide alternative 'launchers' that will showup in a menu while you type a string.
- Open “%s” in the terminal
- Open “%s” in webbrowser.
Other Ideas
- Ctrl+Enter: launch the command in a terminal.