Provide mechanism(s) to ensure the "best" result is first in the apps page

mfisher87 commented 2 years ago

When using ilia as my application launcher, it doesn't consistently put the result I want first like my preferred rofi configuration does, and there isn't currently a way to configure sort or matching behavior.

Out of the box behavior from ilia (ilia -p apps):

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3608264/171774344-33b563aa-b77c-4f7c-9a83-fd714441faf9.mp4

The two rofi configurations that I feel consistently provide good matches are:

rofi -show drun -drun-match-fields name: only search on the application name (note that there are few results)

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3608264/171774411-a2e6bf4a-71d4-4e68-a9fd-30ff521eb9ed.mp4

rofi -show drun -sort -sorting-method fzf: search on all application metadata and provide the "best" results first... maybe this is calculated by the number of matches in the application metadata (e.g. application name + application description matches is better than just an application description match)? waves hands

https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3608264/171774423-9eed9d61-98fd-4627-a4aa-1faeb12ee4a7.mp4

mfisher87 commented 2 years ago

Either GitHub corrupted the video files on upload or there's an issue with my browser. I'll try and convert them to something more web-friendly.

mfisher87 commented 2 years ago

Videos should be working now. Took me 3 or 4 tries of different codecs before it finally worked. libx264 codec seems to have been the trick for some reason. Or maybe it was one of the other flags I tried more or less randomly. :shrug:

kgilmer commented 2 years ago

Wow, thanks for the videos, very helpful @mfisher87 . While the feature you're requesting could def be added, FYI one thing happening under the hood in ilia is that the last 32 app selections are saved in a list. When ilia starts, it pulls those top 32 up in the ranking by frequency. So, over time your most commonly used apps should rise to the top. You can see what's being stored by ilia in gsettings via gsettings get org.regolith-linux.ilia app-launch-counts

anamyk commented 9 months ago

Same frustration for me here. I really like the Regolith project, using it since several years. Just upgraded from Regolith 1 to Regolith 3 - and i need my sorting options for the launcher. @mfisher87 Did you find a solution? Do you still use rofi?

mfisher87 commented 9 months ago

Yes, I'm still using rofi. I've been too busy to get on to Regolith 3 so far, I'm ashamed to say!

https://github.com/mfisher87/provision-desktop/blob/b0e02bf6b6ddee94f3c0e4c0cad8e86692245159/files/regolith2-cfg/i3/config.d/config#L132-L134

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Provide mechanism(s) to ensure the "best" result is first in the apps page #26