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LifeHacker launcher application voting and FARR Name
tomos:
:-[
I couldnt vote cause I had "joined" before with same email address - doh!
Joined again so post made & awaiting approval
yotta:
well the lh editors do go over it manually i think :D,
my vote would probably be for launchy, its quicker, but im not going to vote on this one, and maybe try out what others use.
s.newave:
Have to agree with most of the others in saying that the biggest obstacle imo holding FARR back from getting the attention it deserves is that it is not as intuitive or accessible as some of the other launchers on that list. Just doesnt have the same "sex appeal" :P even though it is farr more powerful. As i mentioned in another thread i think adding the following features to FARR and having it use the Large icon slide by default with only location as the other row would help.
With regards to the interface i think one nice option would be to add an icon to the left of the query box right above the search results which would reflect the icon from the first search result. Taking that one step further you could also display the name from the first result as well in a different color/font perhaps. I think this allows you visually to identify the result you are looking for quicker. I see this as a middle ground between using the small icon report, which i use as i prefer having more results with a larger query font, and the large icon slide.
Would it be possible to add another set of "Report Columns" options in the display tab for the large icon slide display style. This way you would have a "Report Columns" for each display style and could specify different columns to use for each style. To be more accurate it would probably be a "Report Columns" for the small icon report and "Report Rows" for the large icon slide style. I think this would work well especially with the functionality to automatically switch display styles. I find myself using the large icons for regular app launching etc where i wouldnt normally need to view a lot of the other columns however when it automatically switches to the small icon report for dir results as well as a lot of the plugin results i would like to see the other columns.
Likewise it would be great if in the Fonts tab you could have the option to set the font/size for the other rows besides the "Name" row when using the large icon style. Being able to change the fonts would imo be very helpful in making the "Name" row more prominent and distinguishable from any other rows the user has specified.
-s.newave (May 17, 2008, 12:26 PM)
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Lastly an improved help file would be good although some screencasts would be A LOT better.
Keep up the great work though Mouser and i cant wait for the next release ;)
Perry Mowbray:
Maybe there is a wiki but we can start a slow Farr wiki maybe.
-kartal (May 21, 2008, 01:28 PM)
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I think a WIKI in this situation would be perfect. Lots of other software is going down that track: all it needs is enthusiastic members (and we have lots of those).
I'm sure that a lot of members would learn a thing or two as well! as rjbull said:
I don't, for one... Maybe part of the "problem" is lack of tutorials, which is why sri's is useful? It would help to have a simple summary of all the things FARR can do, whether you have add extra tools to make them work, whether the aliases are pre-configured, and what platforms they run on (e.g., not everyone has .NET installed).-rjbull (May 21, 2008, 11:01 AM)
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Just for the record: I don't for two! I use just what I need to get by (always seem to be time poor).
xbeta:
I know the power of FARR, although I did not use it.
so I intorduce it to Chinese users:
http://xbeta.info/ask-quick-launch.htm
if you cannot read Chinse, see the google translated page.
and ask my readers to help translate the homepage & FARR into Chinese.
ask for Mouser's permission of translate.
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