Alternatives to deskbar applet?
Posted on August 14th, 2007 by Daniel
From here:
First of all, yes, button and entry mode are gone and won’t come back in the near future.
Okay, so no more deskbar-applet. Oh lazy-web, are there any alternatives to deskbar-applet that are actually usable? Or will I have to fork deskbar-applet and maintain my own from now until eternity? Or maybe just stop using either tracker or beagle…
We can just hope that the developers decide to offer the old way, too, cause that thing is pretty much just redundant, the point of deskbar-applet was that it was completely keyboard driven, which was really handy.
Sad to see that thing go
If you’re using deskbar-applet primarily for document search, you could always just make a launcher for the search gui you use. That’s how I do my beagle searches - from a taskbar launcher.
Unfortunately, I used deskbar-applet for several other purposes, including dictionary searches. I don’t have space on my panel to add in all the things that deskbar did.