Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 7th Oct 2007 15:19 UTC
KDE developer Pinheiro revealed his ideas on the next KDE menu, dubbed 'Raptor'. "What is Raptor? Raptor is a an amazing project I have been working on in the last few days. It tries to be a fresh new way of finding your desktop applications, and interacting with its users." A design document (containing more screenshots) is also available [.pdf].
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2006-01-12
Well, if this thing works anything like launching applications using Spotlight on the Mac (apple+space, type app's name, enter) then I'm all for it.
Alt+F2, type app name (with dropdown and automatic completion), enter. It's been there all along.
It would help if you could search by function or description (I assume spotlight does that and it's what you meant), so you don't have to remember names like tutbKbtasuaatpotimfoantatywtadawwtcuwssnanl"t"btctosawwaai(This Used To Be KIllustrator But Then Adobe Sued Us And All The People On The Internet Made Fun Of App Names That Actually Tell You What The App Does And We Wanted To Come Up With Some Stupid New Age Name Like "Tranquility" But Then Came To Our Senses And Went With An Acronym Instead.)
EDIT: Yes, that was overdone, I admit it. But let's face it the problem is real. We've gone from programs called "xchat" and "kwrite" (both still alive but around for a long time) to stuff like marble and pidgin (both clever names in their own way but you'd never come up with it when sitting in front of a run dialog)
Edited 2007-10-07 22:00