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Find And Run Robot / Re: A unified FARR / Launcher Interface Proposal

« on: December 13, 2006, 07:50 PM »

I like the idea.  Partly because I bought 'Object dock' a year or two ago, and
with FARR, I've tossed the dock entirely.   I'd love FARR integrated into the
dock in a few ways..

1)  dock is BEHIND all apps, until you hit the break key.  when you do, it pops in front
     and activates the search bar.
2) A part of the dock can contain static icons
3) A part of the dock can contain the top x history icons
4) The dock overall can implement lots of pretty features like zoom and transparency etc.

Check out 'RocketDock' which is the flavour of the month in the Dock world, with
Konfabulator going the Yahoo!?! way, and Object Dock costing real money.. and Y'z
dock being no longer developed...

Rocket Dock integrated into FARR, with a hotkey to activate and pop it to the front
would be fabulous!   RocketDock is missing the ability to show running apps (with a
highlight) or SysTray icons (without crashing that is).. Object Dock is better in that
respects, just not free.

I think you can download the source to Rocketdock as a reference.  Note that active
ICONS as plugins would also be a bonus, since I use(d) an active GMAIL icon which
changed when it detected unread mail in my inbox..  AAh. I can feel my MAC envy
returning..


BTW, masu.. yes, very nice :-)

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Feature Idea

« on: December 09, 2006, 03:35 AM »

Hey Mouser,

I've been using FARR for some time now, and I've got two feature requests..

1)  Position of the window.   My display size changes regularly for a number of reasons, including
      (a) remote desktop from another machine with lower resolution
      (b) Moving from the dock at home to the dock at work with different screen attached, and
           different screen resolutions.
     (c) Resolution changes due to switching between multiple monitors and single monitor mode when
           external screens are plugged in.. (This is a laptop if you haven't already guessed).

     I would like to see the FARR dialog box stick to the lower right corner.. always.. regardless of
     display resolution etc..., and it should always stay on the primary display...

2)  History..  Each app I find gets placed in the history, and some combination of history order and priority
     determines the order in the search window when searching again.

     Can the history VALUE be increased by some arbitrary number (10?) for every invocation? Up to a maximum
     of course..

     This stops the occasional app from jumping to the top of the history order, when in fact I may not intend to
     run it for another month....  while popular apps, those I run every day, or many times a day, stay at the top
     where they belong.

Thanks.