July 2011 update: Faster! Faster!
Written for Cardapio by Thiago Teixeira on 2011-07-09
New shortcuts
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Work faster than ever with new shortcuts:
- Use Ctrl+N to launch the Nth result (for example, Ctrl+2 opens the second result)
- Use Shift+Enter or Shift-click on a folder to peek inside the folder
- Use Shift+Enter or Shift-click on a file to open its containing folder
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Showing/hiding Cardapio now two times faster
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Showing/hiding Cardapio from Docky or Unity used to take about 550ms. This was a bit too much. Now, after reducing the loading-time of some Python libraries from 300ms to 1ms, this process takes only 250ms or so. This is twice as fast as before, and much more usable!
[ Note that this only applies to Cardapio in Docky or Unity. Opening Cardapio from the Gnome Panel, AWN, or when in stand-alone mode was always much faster than this, and has stayed that way :) ]
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Added a Cardapio.desktop file, for use in Unity or other docks
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To use Cardapio in your favorite dock, you can now just navigate to the /usr/share/
And this method works pretty much anywhere. XFCE, LWDE, Docky, Unity, KDE, and so on. Whatever supports .desktop files!
Finally, this also includes support for a Unity quick-list for launching Cardapio's preferences window. A nice little touch :)
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...and many bug fixes, as usual! One nice fix to mention is that Cardapio's core package no longer depends on Gnome libraries, making it a lightweight installation in other environments.
