The idea is to merge the current appfinder and xfrun4 into 1 application that can do it all; but better. It involves a bunch of custom tree and list models that all work with the same data and data loading in threads and idles.

Completed: 0%
Assignee: Nick
Difficulty: Hard

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”.

It should be fairly 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.

• Ctrl+Enter: launch the command in a terminal.