Sometime, the right-click > Server > Run command
menu changed to have multiple drop-down menus.
Since I don't necessarily work well with those, can I also have the freetext-terminal execution (ala Alt+F2
style) that there was there before?
If I just want to run xterm
, it is usually annoying for me to go through all these menus and figure out where is what. xterm
is in System Tools
, but gnome-terminal
is in Utilities
(?????)
A much better approach would be a fuzzy-text-search through all the lists (searching by menu name in all locales and executable), which would also default to "terminal execution" if no option was selected. Think of it like e.g. Sublime Text's Command Palette, with also a fallback option. But that sounds much more complicated to do.
If you plan to do that, please make sure that the search takes into account all command "names" (in all locales), along with the terminal name.
If I have a Greek locale, and I write "terminal", I'd very much like to see "gnome-terminal", "Terminal" as options instead of nothing (which will come both from the command executable gnome-terminal
and from the English-locale name "Terminal").
I've gone for the simple solution in r22269: we always show the editable field so you can type in there. I don't have time to implement the text matching logic.
Replying to Antoine Martin:
I've gone for the simple solution in r22269: we always show the editable field so you can type in there. I don't have time to implement the text matching logic.
Yeah yeah sure! Whatever works!
I know that xpra is complex enough to maintain and improve, to bother with "extra" functionality.
Ιf you plan to do that, please make sure that the search takes into account all command "names" (in all locales), along with the terminal name.
Especially since no-one that has implemented searches (or "smart" searches) never bothered to do cross-locale, name-and-executed-command kind of fuzzy match
You may keep this open / open a new one if you like the feature. Or however you prefer to handle things.
this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/2221