Comments on: deskbar-applet hotness

By: John Peterson

John Peterson — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:05:35 +0000

I like Deskbar, but as several have stated before me, it tends to be too much work to have to page down to the action you’d like to do. There are two things I think that would make this less painful. First, make the last action (e.g. “Search Google”) the default for next time. Not only that, but sort the actions so that the most recently used are on top. Second, once the user has moved focus to the action list, make incremental matching possible, so that they can start typing in the name of the action they’d like to perform and have it highlight within a few keystrokes. I’d also like the option to keep the list of actions hidden unless I request for it (by pressing the up or down arrow), but this is a personal thing and not as functionally important as the first thing.

By: Raphaël Slinckx

Raphaël Slinckx — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:19:07 +0000

It’s not included, but it would be fairly easy to do as a custom handler.
You can look for custom plugins example in the deskbar website http://raphael.slinckx.net/dekbar
The web searches also implements something alike..

By: dusti

dusti — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 00:57:34 +0000

This is excellent! I have been looking for a LaunchBar (mac) and SlickRun (win) like prog for use on my Ubuntu machines for some time now. I look forward to seeing Deskbar prosper and grow, best of luck!

Question/Suggestion:
Perhaps I have missed it in my searches, but is there functionality to map user configurable abbreviations/commands? Say for example, I want to always launch firefox by typing “ff” into the Deskbar input field?

Keep up the good work,
D.

By: nate

nate — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:53:58 +0000

You know it’s a great idea and all, but…

With that ’screencast’ link, couldn’t you choose a format that everybody in your audiance can use? I mean that this is open source and free software and all that, yet a format that is completely closed is used to show it off. If you choose to distribute your blog as a Microsoft word format it wouldn’t be that bad since I can view .doc files on my ppc computer, but with flash it’s completely worthless to me.

Not that I am paticularlly upset or think that you should change, it’s just been a long night and it’s annoying to that people that should know better, don’t.

By: Anders Aagaard

Anders Aagaard — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:46:07 +0000

realized I had an old version, tried cvs… I love it I love it I love it I love it, this is so great

By: Anders Aagaard

Anders Aagaard — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:43:27 +0000

This is absolutly brilliant man, love it. One suggestion, setup something to prioritize things differently.

So I can for example have “search imdb” way lower prioritized than search google, and being able to write “google deskbar” or “imdb deskbar” and have it pick the right thing to do would be awsome too. That’d make it about 10 times as practical for me I think.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 03:11:01 +0000

i think this is an extreamly promising project. I just cant wait until i can search for files from it (spotlight OSX)

By: NKIKI

NKIKI — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:37:06 +0000

Hey whats Steve Ballmer’s email address?

Also with Plan 9/Inferno you can tell if a application is a console one or a GUI. We should start the swap Unix really is showing it’s time.

By: anonymous coward

anonymous coward — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 19:37:26 +0000

i hate spatial nautilus

though, i do really like deskbar applet

thanxalot, playing around with the suggestions, like z@w -> “Launch Tetravex”

By: ric

ric — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 17:52:38 +0000

ONE OF THE GREATEST THINGS IN GNOME SINCE SPATIAL NAUTILUS!!!! THANKS VERY MUCH!