Adding applications (desktop files) becomes difficult when there're many applications

Schneegans / Gnome-Pie

A pie menu launcher for linux. Read the release announcement of version 0.7.2 at https://schneegans.github.io/news/2018/10/30/gnome-pie-072 Or have a look at the homepage!

http://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie.html

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Adding applications (desktop files) becomes difficult when there're many applications #154

Closed KSXGitHub closed 3 years ago

KSXGitHub commented 6 years ago

I cannot take a screenshot while showing the drop-down menu but I take screenshot of the dialog

Now, look at the "Command to execute" box, it has an arrow button on the right to display a drop-down list of installed apps (.desktop files). When there are many apps installed, most apps hidden and very hard to find (user can still find it with enough patient).

I suggest replace drop-down list with a dialog that contains a list of apps and a text-box to filter them

Schneegans commented 5 years ago

While this is a nice idea, I won't have the time to implement this right now. So if anybody want's to do it.... just feel free :)

GuenMat commented 5 years ago

I have an issue with this, I am using ubuntu 18.10 and just discovered gnome pie. But I can not access my application list as scrolling down is not allowed.

I know a workaround is to set the command to execute manually, but it is quite a hassle. How do people use this fonctionnality ? Do I have something to activate ? A settings to change ? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your work.

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GuenMat commented 5 years ago

Well I just discovered that I should not open the drop down menu to pick an application, but simply keep the cursor on the drop down menu without opening it, and use arrows to get the app I want.

gabdub commented 5 years ago

I'm running Ubuntu Mate 18.10 here and a couple of arrows are shown at the top and at the bottom of the list that allows scrolling. It seems like yours are outside of the view. Also the scroll-wheel works for me. It could be an issue with your theme.

GuenMat commented 5 years ago

You are totally right. I use Yaru-Dark. If I switch to the default theme, the scroll-wheel starts working again :)

I knew there must be something wrong with my config, but I did not think about the theme. Thank you !

Schneegans commented 3 years ago

I guess that this can be closed. Btw, if you are still interested in this project, you could try out Fly-Pie which is a successor project of Gnome-Pie. Fly-Pie has a better application-select-dialog :smile: .