On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 10:34:05PM +0100, Sander van Dijk wrote: > I love dmenu, but one thing has been bothering me for a while: lists > with a lot of items are hard to navigate. With a short list, you can > just browse through it with left/right; with a long list you can use > the filter to speed up navigation.
> This is only true however when you already know what you're looking > for: typing 'fire' to quickly jump to firefox is only useful if you > already know that that's what you want _and_ that it's in the > list. If you are faced with a long list, in which you don't know > exactly what's in it, typing in a filter isn't really going to help, > and scrolling all the way through the list with --> is a big pita. Hmm. I don't really understand how the 'pita' is changed with paged scrolling: Either I know where in the list of 1000 items I want to look (if I know that, I can type at least the first character) or I don't - in which case I have to scroll through all 1000 items. Although the scrolling might be faster with the patch, I still think it is as much pita as before because I have to look at the same amount of items as before. A real improvement for large sets of items would be a hierarchical navigation, but then you'd have to create a structure beforehand (on Debian this could be done via menu and it's hooks). Regards, Christian (totally happy with current dmenu + history patch) -- ....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de Holy Dilemma! Is this the end for the Caped Crusader and the Boy Wonder? Will the Joker and the Riddler have the last laugh? Tune in again tomorrow: same Bat-time, same Bat-channel!
