Allow search of application menu (like Unity HUD)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Synapse |
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It would be great to Synapse to implement the search through applcation menu, in a way similar to Unity HUD (see: Unity/HUD - Ubuntu Wiki - http://
brx75 (brx75x) wrote : | #1 |
CruelAngel (hendricha) wrote : | #2 |
@brx75: That's great news. Can't wait for it to happen.
Laszlo Boros (semmu) wrote : | #3 |
That would be awesome. Please make it happen! I'm personally using fallback session, but I miss HUD. A Synapse plugin would be just perfect.
brx75 (brx75x) wrote : | #4 |
I've to communicate that no much progress has been done on this.
Sorry all.
steve (b6111282) wrote : | #5 |
Would be great to see such a feature. Note that there are multiple requests on stackexchange about such a thing:
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Redsandro (redsandro) wrote : | #6 |
This would improve the lives of so many people, I can't believe none of them figured out how to do this yet. :D
Ads20000 (ads20000) wrote : | #7 |
Just use Unity? :P
pa83 (pa83) wrote : | #8 |
@ Ads20000
I think people want to choose which WM to use. However I think HUD is a killer feature which should be available completely independent of the WM.
Franko Burolo (fburolo) wrote : | #9 |
HUD is indeed a killer feature. It is hard to believe it is still present only in Unity...
I am still using Unity mostly because of the HUD. But I have an old computer and I am afraid it is a matter of time until Unity becomes to hard on resources for it. I would love to have a more lightweight WM-agnostic alternative and Synapse seems to have the most potential.
Dan (the-dark-aardvark) wrote : | #10 |
Has there been any progress on this? This is an incredible killer-feature of Unity, and I am shocked that it seems to still be unavailable on any other desktop environment. It's very useful for a keyboard-driven approach to computing.
I see that KDE Plasma is getting this feature soon, likely in their next version: http://
Perhaps there could be some collaboration with them, or you could just look at their code and get some ideas on how to do this?
I found that in "libindicator- appmenu" there are some tools written in Vala and one of this is a stand-alone hud client. I'ld like to start from this to develop a Synapse plugin.