{"id":164,"date":"2009-06-08T11:39:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/?p=164"},"modified":"2009-06-08T11:39:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:39:16","slug":"netbook-search-and-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"Netbook: Search and Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last week I started playing with SAL: the “Search and Launch” containment for the netbook project. It was really nice as I played with Runners and could finally understand some bits that were still inside a black box for me. It’s sooo easy to use Runners on your applications!<\/p>\n

So, the main idea behind this containment is that instead of using a regular menu like Kickoff you would be able to just search for what you’re looking for. The regular desktop already uses this feature inside KRunner but just advanced users and a few beginners know about it and how to use it properly (besides the fact that it’s trivial to use) – it’s hidden and is only triggered by a shortcut or by the menu entry “Run Command” that is not so visible.<\/p>\n

Right now, as you can see in the screenshot below (sorry, no videos as I need to recompile some stuff to make recordMyDesktop work again) I put an edit line widget to type the queries but later this will be inside the panel. The user just types whatever he wants to do: it can be the name of an application, category (web browser), contact, calculation, unit conversion, etc.. (we’re thinking of a way to teach the user everything he is able to query – but suggestions are welcome).<\/p>\n

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Search and Launch Containment<\/p><\/div>\n

There is also the “Favourites Strip”. When you mouse hover one of the results you’re able to add it to the Favourite Strip clicking on the “star icon”. Add as much favourites as you want and you can scroll between them in a “carousel” like widget. Maybe in the future we can make it more beautiful with Kinetic and add some bling \ud83d\ude42 Right now I want something that really works and we can add blings later (using Kinetic<\/a> – and yes we may use animated layouts too \\o\/ hehe). Ah, and I really wished that we already had anchor layouts<\/a> while developing SAL. It would be so easy and I would not have a lot of problems that I had to layout the widgets =\/.<\/p>\n

Now I need to make it persistent (so we are able to restore the favourites) and also remove the edit line widget and put in the panel as it was planed first.<\/p>\n

Cheers,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last week I started playing with SAL: the “Search and Launch” containment for the netbook project. It was really nice as I played with Runners and could finally understand some bits that were still inside a black box for me. It’s sooo easy to use Runners on your applications! So, the main idea behind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-kde","category-maemo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.morpheuz.cc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}