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I was thinking about the possibility of implementing a "find as you type" for apps.
Is there any way to run an app instead of the menu popping up?
Would anybody else find this useful?
 

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I was thinking about the same thing. That would be so cool.
 

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are you refering to something that is similiar to gnome-do or launchy? because that would be invaluable!
 

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we are referring to, the way you type and see the contacts, similarly if we could type and find apps.
 

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This would be very very very usefull when you have plenty of apps (like I do). I think best kind of implement would be that when you type something on homescreen, it would search for contacts, apps and bookmarks instead of just contacts.
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sounds good.

i would like it when you open up the menu and just start typing and it'll start filtering.

i think typing on the homescreen should be restricted to contacts, but then again, i guess this is just a question of preference?! could be an option.
 

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sounds good.

i would like it when you open up the menu and just start typing and it'll start filtering.

i think typing on the homescreen should be restricted to contacts, but then again, i guess this is just a question of preference?! could be an option.
+1 On your idea.
 
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Maybe like for contacts but you would begin with one push of the spacebar and then begin typing the app name. So you only get a list of apps and simply press enter when the right one is highlighted to run the app.
 
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Great idea!
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I've had this idea since PR1.2. It needs to happen. I keep all my apps in alphabetical order (standard) so just pressing a button would save me literally minuets a day looking for an application (I have a lot of apps).

One more thing to take into consideration is the fact that if I wanted to play Doom, in my mind the thought would be to press D (for Doom), but in the application manager it is PrDoom. Same with OpenArena and Quake. Maybe it would be good if the search looked more in depth.
 
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