On 31 July 2012 11:55, David C. Rankin drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com wrote:
On 07/31/2012 09:55 AM, Calvin Morrison wrote:
I am also heavily dependent upon MiniCli - I don't want to change it, just to extend it.
Calvin
But whatever you do, DO NOT make it behave like the KDE4 version that tries to think for you!!! ALT-F2, you type in the name of the executable, that's it. no other crap pops up on the screen, no other crap appears in a listbox, it doesn't talk back and provide any sass, it just does its job the exact same way it has been doing its job for years.
Of course if you wanted that - wouldn't all you have to do is disable those excess features?
No -- search my inbox, contacts, don't list my recent documents, don't offer to launch a URL, just pop up the icon for the executable I type in and run it...
Just turn the "recent documents" plugin off... same thing
However, if you always remember to provide a configuration option to retain the original behavior, it can be a crazy as you want it. (A new feature is a bug if you can't turn it off!) The kde4 devs completely missed that concept. I kind of agree with Tim here, no need to KDE4'ify Alt+F2.
Actually the KDE4 dialog is very nice. Though a bit excessive in some area's you've pointed out.
With that said... "What were your ideas?" :)
Things that could be useful:
'#<man page name>' - opens man page in konqueror regardless of .html mimetype
stuff like that would be awesome, and along the lines of what katapult does.
Currently if you have your mime-type set to open .html in kwrite (or other editor for development work), then the minicli launches the man page hypertext in kwrite. That could be fixed and improved.
Mime types still suck. "Open With" is the bane of my existence. On windows, on Mac OS X, one Linux, on unix, I always have issues :[ I still have trouble with trinity and programs that are running with a different toolkit.
Calvin