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SCALE: Understanding UnitySCALE: Understanding UnityPosted Mar 5, 2011 19:04 UTC (Sat) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)In reply to: SCALE: Understanding Unity by Tet Parent article: SCALE: Understanding Unity
I was about to agree with you, except I realised that to access lwn I actually type "lw<down><enter>" and slashdot as "sl<down><enter>". Which I guess amounts to searching.
I wouldn't mind a search thing for applications. I indeed have the problem listed, I know the name of the app but can't find it in the menu. System > Preferences doesn't even fit on the screen. I know MacOSX has something called spotlight, that always looked cool when people used.
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SCALE: Understanding Unity Posted Mar 6, 2011 4:33 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
What we really need isn't searching, per se: it's incremental searching, s you don't need to type in more than a couple of letters of the search term. Thankfully a sort of crude crippled isearch has caught on in web browsers in recent years and is percolating slowly into other programs. (It still is a very, very long way from real isearch, but it's better than nothing.)
SCALE: Understanding Unity Posted Mar 8, 2011 13:13 UTC (Tue) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link] I was about to agree with you, except I realised that to access lwn I actually type "lw<down><enter>" and slashdot as "sl<down><enter>". Which I guess amounts to searching. I wouldn't mind a search thing for applications. Take this further and I believe you get to what the Mozilla people called Ubiquity, which was itself based on a product called Enso.
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