Re: [orca-list] any accessible dash pane like app in Mate?

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

Hi Kendel,
gnomedo is the one you are probably trying to remember.
Give it a try.
It did pretty ok for me when I searched apps.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.


On Sunday 20 March 2016 11:32 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
> There are external addons that do this kind of thing, cinapse and ...
> there's another one that I can't remember the name of off the top of my
> head, but cinapse is not accessible and this other one I can't remember
> isn't either. From what little I know about the search stuff, it depends
> on a program called tracker, which mate is in the process of integrating
> with, so eventually, I'm not sure when, you'll be able to do this in
> mate, though it won't be mandatory like it is in gnome. This won't help
> you right now, but it's the best I can do. Of course I'm no expert,
> there could be a search app that does work and I don't know about it. If
> so, I'll add it to our sonar mate edition.
> Thanks
> Kendell Clark
>
>
> B. Henry wrote:
> > I think anything like this would for sure need to remain an add-on as the search driven stuff is where most 
> > of the extra resource usage in gnome and
> > unity comes from, and mate is trying to remain medium light as far as I know.
> > ...
> > > > I however am missing the serch feature in Gnome or Unity.
> > > > press super key and type first few lettter of what you want and it comes
> > > > up.
> > > > I am not talking about the alt + f2 search, I am talking about the smart
> > > > search in gnome or unity.
> > snip
> > I am a bit unclear as to what this app is supposed to do/will google, but perhaps you can explain a bit about 
> > it also, please.
> > ...
> > > there is matetweak, there you can get the redmont layout. It is on the last
> > > card of matetweak. I like it very much.
> > snip
> > Notifications were working for a while in mate as far as I know/remember. I think the problem is a bug in 
> > latest release.
> > There was a time when installing notify-osd, the Ubuntu notification thingy would give you accesible 
> > notifications in mate.
> > I thin Kendell just reported that this no longer works/not running mate anywhere right now except the older 
> > release  on vinux5, so can't easily confirm
> > what does and does not work.
> >      
> >   
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