GNOME Do’s advanced text entry mode

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:10:20 +0000

Dear Lazyweb, is it just me or does GNOME Do’s advanced text entry (<.>) mode still seem severely limited? It doesn’t seem to support text cursor movement, selection and I can use only a single line break at a time. I’m not sure why they wouldn’t just use a stylized multi-line GtkEntry widget (or possibly even something like GtkSourceView or Scintilla). Actual advanced text entry mode would be required for using it to write blog posts.

Improving GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin

Bruce van der Kooij — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 01:38:37 +0000

Something related to the previous post and something that I think would be quite useful is if GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin by Jason Smith supported textually searching through the window titles and then focusing the application it found. It currently only supports searching for application names. Using libwnck this is actually quite easy. Focus prevention logic in the window manager may prevent proper focusing though. Perhaps ideally it would be able to search through the entire window content, but AFAIK this cannot be easily achieved. This is actually something I’ve been meaning to implement, let’s see if I get around to it.

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GNOME Do’s advanced text entry mode

Improving GNOME Do’s Window Manager plugin