About Deskbar-Applet
The goal of Deskbar-Applet is to provide an omnipresent versatile search interface. By typing search terms into the deskbar entry in your panel you are presented with the search results as you type.
Searches are handled by a series of plugins. Deskbar-Applet provides a simple interface to manage these plugins to provide you with the search results that fit your needs.
A related idea was published earlier as Auric Applet. Similar software from the GNOME family includes contact-lookup-applet, mini-commander applet (in gnome-applets), webeyes and GNOME Launch Box and the Alt-f2 dialog.
Feature highlights
Generic
Sits in the panel waiting for input Global configurable hotkey to directly focus the entry and start typing Pluggable backend architecture, allows to add custom backends in home/system dir. Allows third parties to add a backend Sorting of backend results order is adaptable easily. Intuitive history menu, to repeat frequent actions Translated in 69 languages Use themed icons associated with actions, to have a visual feedback
Backends
Beagle Live: Search all of your documents (using Beagle), as you type Calculator: Calculate simple equations Computer Actions: Logoff, shutdown, restart, suspend and related actions del.icio.us Bookmarks: Search your del.icio.us bookmarks by tag name Developer Documentation: Search Devhelp for a function name Dictionary: Look up word definitions in the dictionary Files and Folders Search: Find files and folders by searching for a name pattern Files, Folders and Places: View your files, folders, bookmarks, drives, network places by name Google Code Search: Search public source code for function definitions and sample code Google Search: Search Google directly from Deskbar History: Recognize previously used searches OpenSearch: Search any OpenSearch compliant website Programs: Launch a program by its name and/or description Recent Documents: Retrieve your recently accessed files and locations Tomboy Notes: Search your Tomboy notes Twitter and identi.ca: Post updates to your Twitter or identi.ca account Web: Open web pages and send emails by typing a complete address Web Bookmarks: Open your web bookmarks by name (Mozilla, Firefox 2, epiphany) Web History: Open your web history by name Web Searches: Search the web via your browser's search settings Window Switcher: Switch to an existing window by name Wikipedia Suggest: As you type, Wikipedia will offer suggestions Yahoo! Search: Search Yahoo! as you type Yahoo! Suggestions: Provides suggestions for queries related to the submitted query
News
September 27, 2010
Stable version 2.32.0 released.This release marks the end of development.
Removed gdmclient import and fixed switch user action Updated translations
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May 2, 2010
Stable version 2.30.1 released.Specify UTF-8 encoding at the top of AccelEntry.py; Fixes bug #612990 Use accessor functions so it compiles with -DGSEAL_ENABLE. Additionally, no deprecated symbols are used anymore. Fixes bug #615394 and bug #615555. Updated translations
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March 29, 2010
Stable version 2.30.0 released.Updated translations
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February 23, 2010
Unstable version 2.29.91 released.Updated translations
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February 9, 2010
Unstable version 2.29.90 released.Fixed bug #599257: Set pkgconfig file to same libdir as other code Fixed bug #599839: Added CopyToClipboard action evolution module Fixed bug #555713: Unescape HTML entities in Google Search and Google Code Search module. Select first item when displaying all actions Fixed bug #596681: Various string fixes Fixed bug #599827: Remove large border around search entry Fixed bug #608288: Silence build with AM_SILENT_RULES Updated translations
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September 22, 2009
Stable version 2.28.0 released.Updated translations
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September 7, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.92 released.Fixed bug #593798: Duplicate object id in preferences ui file Updated translations
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August 24, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.91 released.Reverted fix for bug #578803: deskbar-applet incorrectly installs to pythondir rather than pyexecdir Fixed bug #589094: deskbar installs in libdir instead of libexecdir Updated translations
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August 10, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.90 released.Updated translations
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July 27, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.5 released.Updated translations
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July 13, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.4 released.Fixed bug in files handler that uppercase querys never showed up Use gio instead gnome.ui to retrieve thumbnails Use SessionManager DBus service to logout/restart/shutdown instead of gnome.ui Fixed bug #573639: Remove deprecated libgnomeui dependency Always execute default action of first item when pressing Enter in entry Use Utils.url_show_file instead of gnome-open
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June 15, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.3 released.Updated translations
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May 25, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.2 released.Fixed bug #582131: build: missing ChangeLog when running automake Fixed bug that caused the window to show up again when intending to close it by pressing the keybinding
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May 18, 2009
Stable version 2.26.2 released.Fixed bug #575185: Scan directories in templates folder Fixed bug #580188: self._desktop is None in OpenDesktopFileAction.py Fixed bug #580548: Error in ActionsFactory when file doesn't exist Fixed parts of bug #577649. Check if templates directory can be retrieved and exists in initialize. Fixed bug #581207: Use g_timeout_add_seconds to reduce wakeups Fixed bug that caused that the window to show up again when intending to close it by pressing the keybinding
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May 4, 2009
Unstable version 2.27.1 released.Fixed bug #575185: Scan directories in templates folder Display tooltips in history popup Fixed parts of bug #577649. Check if templates directory can be retrieved and exists in has_requirements Fixed bug #580548: Error in ActionsFactory when file doesn't exist Fixed bug #580188: self._desktop is None in OpenDesktopFileAction.py Fixed bug #581207: Use g_timeout_add_seconds to reduce wakeups
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April 13, 2009
Stable version 2.26.1 released.Close window when it loses focusy Fixed #504930, Showing application icon for app launchers Fixed #552843, if the search has no result, the result list is not blanked Fixed #577487, identi.ca plugin incorrectly shows amount of remaining symbols Fixed #578803, deskbar-applet incorrectly installs to pythondir rather than pyexecdir Removed unused variable PYTHONDIR
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March 17, 2009
Stable version 2.26.0 released.Updated translations
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March 2, 2009
Unstable version 2.25.92 released.Fixed #572291, Bookmark search doesn't match on Epiphany topics
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February 16, 2009
Unstable version 2.25.91 released.Fixed bug that only local GTK bookmarks showed up. Searching for bookmark name is case insensitive now. Check if there's an default application to open the url in ShowUrlAction.is_valid Fixed bug that first and last category where not selectable with keyboard Select last item when Enter is pressed in entry when the applet is on the bottom panel Set correct sort order of CuemiacTreeView at startup
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February 2, 2009
Unstable version 2.25.90 released.Fixed #569260, crash in Deskbar: started typing 3 Fixed #528184, Write OpenSearch module Fixed #419211, Web search in new a browser window Fixed #542861, Deskbar applet has a pixel border when placed at the edge of the screen Fixed #557801, Results category nodes are not keyboard focusable Fixed #569093, use indexer for path searches Fixed #570059, Strings from .ui files missing from translation template Fixed bug that same GoogleCodeSearchMatch has been added multiple times and assign priorities to matches Added match to yahoo, googlesearch and googlecodesearch that opens the results in the browser
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January 19, 2009
Unstable version 2.25.5 released.Fixed #567422, Add missing include to eggaccelerators.c Fixed launch_default_for_uri_and_scheme function to work with ghelp and mailto addresses
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January 12, 2009
Stable version 2.24.3 released.Fixed #558858, Deskbar stops working when closing by 'x' Fixed #564726, configure doesn't detect pygtk in alternative directories
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January 5, 2009
Unstable version 2.25.4 released.Fixed #558858, Deskbar stops working when closing by 'x' Fixed #564726, configure doesn't detect pygtk in alternative directories
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December 15, 2008
Unstable version 2.25.3 released.Show windows that are part of viewport that is currently not visible
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December 2, 2008
Unstable version 2.25.2 released.Fixed #552204, AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get_actions' in __get_match_action_for_cell Fixed #559169, gnome power manager has new dbus path, this breaks some code in gdmaction module Fixed #560190, Added RebootAction and RebootMatch Fixed #561181, Support both simplejson and json module
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November 22, 2008
Stable version 2.24.2 released.Fixed #557570, Crash when proxy port changed Fixed #558700, the yahoo url listed are duplicated Fixed #559169, gnome power manager has new dbus path, this breaks some code in gdmaction module Work around bug #552204 and ignore rows where match is None
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November 03, 2008
Unstable version 2.25.1 released.In this release all gnomevfs calls have been ported to gio and glade files are replaced by GTK builder UI files. Therefore, pygobject 2.15.3 or later is required.
Fixed #557570, Crash when proxy port changed Fixed #551218, Use of strings "Croation" and "Croatian" Fixed #552203, Typo: affect
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October 20, 2008
Stable version 2.24.1 released.This release features updated translations only. Download it
September 22, 2008
Stable version 2.24.0 released.This is the first release of the stable 2.24 series and only contains small bug fixes compared to 2.23.92
Changes since 2.23.92:
Fixed bug #551166: Cannot enable Templates module. Stop monitoring directory when module is stopped. Throw exception when something went wrong and use constants defined in C Fixed: Wikipedia suggest doesn't respect proxy settings
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September 8, 2008
Unstable version 2.23.92 released.This is the last release before the before the stable 2.24 version is released. It only contains bug fixes.
Changes since 2.23.91:
Add support for embedding an extra widget into AccountDialog Fixed #550297, Identi.ca module does not support OpenId causes confussion Changed default UI "Button" Added RecentHandler, CalculatorModule, GdmHandler and TemplateHandler to default list of enabled modules. Removed MozillaBookmarksHandler and MozillaSearchHandler from default list of enabled modules
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September 1, 2008
Unstable version 2.23.91 released.This release mainly features bug fixes. In addition, history items can be deleted in tray mode pressing delete key now.
Changes since 2.23.90:
Fixed #548867, Cannot iterate over gtk.ListStore Fixed #548422, Invalid tooltip formatting in twitter module Fixed #542997, Mozilla modules ask for Firefox between 2.0.0.0 and 3.0.0.0, so FF 3.0.1 doesn't work! Fixed #549203, Superfluous strings for localisation Fixed #549206, Please add comments along with strings for localisation Fixed #549375, deskbar-applet 2.23.90 history dropdown doesn't dismiss after selection Fixed #549432, Fix g_strjoin() call in evolution module Set the 'source' parameter on updates to 'deskbar'. This should put a small 'from deskbar' links after Twitter posts. Pressing the delete key will remove the selected item from history in tray mode, too. Fix a bug in the way the new core.Web module handled updating of account info. Before this fix we leaked accounts each time editing of credentials took place, and we failed to look up the right one if there where multiple.
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August 18, 2008
Unstable version 2.23.90 released.This release comes with new twitter and identi.ca micro blogging modules. Developers can make use of the new deskbar.core.Web module which provides an easy way to store account credentials in gnome keyring, a dialog for managing an account, an asynchronous url opener that hooks into the account framework mentioned above to ask for credentials. Last but not least, items from history can now be deleted one by one when pressing the delete key. However, this doesn't work in tray mode, yet.
Changes since 2.23.6:
Add method load_base64_icon to deskbar.core.Utils. Handy for inlining icons inside modules for easier distribution Introduced a new utility package deskbar.core.Web with tools for dealing with online services Introduced a Twitter and identi.ca micro blogging module Set entry width to 10 when the value is smaller than 10 in CuemuiacAlignedView Fixed bug #538558: Check for directories in $PATH if they are actual directories and if they exist, are readable and executable
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August 5, 2008
Unstable version 2.23.6 released.This release includes a new Google module that will display search results from Google as you type. In addition, you can now configure the entry width in preferences when the stick-to-panel UI is used.
Changes since 2.23.5:
When retrieving tomboy version wait until the process exited to avoid zombie process. Added get_locale_lang function to Utils.py. Fixed bug #544587: unknown locale GconfStore.py: Added sanity checks when setting values and emitting signals (fixes bug #486549) Added Google search module. Written by Helton Doria. Requires simplejson Python module. Fixes bug #535360 desklicious.py: Fixed bug #545791: local variable 'dom' referenced before assignment Removed built-in gnomedesktop module an use gnome-python-desktop's instead Added option to change entry width when Button UI is used desklicious.py: Adjusted url to RSS feeds. Check if content is formatted properly before parsing it. Fixes bug #544645
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August 3, 2008
Stable version 2.22.3.1 released.This release fixes a bug that appeared because of the new version of delicious.com.
Changes since 2.22.3:
desklicious.py: Adjusted url to RSS feeds. Check if content is formatted properly before parsing it. Fixes bug #544645
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July 21, 2008
Unstable version 2.23.5 released.This release stores files according to FreeDesktop's XDG basedir spec. In addition, history can be accessed as in the 2.18 version. An arrow is displayed next to the Deskbar icon which open's a list of recently used actions.
Changes since 2.23.4:
Fixed bug #378755: Use contact's name, not their email address, when writing new mails (patch by Oleg Andreev) Fixed bug #535236: the dialog location change every time it's displayed Set top/up/down/bottom buttons insensitive by default (patch by Goran Rakic) Added check if iter != None when one of the above buttons is pressed (fixes bug #490981) Set default log level to WARNING. Added -d/--debug options to display debug messages Place user's modules in $XDG_DATA_HOME/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible and history file together with modules' configuration data into $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/deskbar-applet Fixed bug #542638: Don't put dict keys in gettext call parameter (patch by Claude Paroz) Check if display name is not None (fixes bug #500087) Fixed bug #516142: Should use plural for strings Access history like in 2.18. Added arrow beside the Deskbar icon. Clicking on it will show the a list of previously activated actions. Display history in tray mode as a sub-menu. Catch OSError when calling os.listdir. (Fixes bug #494922)
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June 30, 2008
Stable version 2.22.3 released. This is the last release in the 2.22 series. Changes since 2.22.2.1:Set TomboyNotesModule.tomboy to None when module is stopped Fixed bug #538425: local variable 'stream' referenced before assignment
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June 16, 2008
Unstable version 2.23.4 released. Changes since 2.23.3:Fixed bug #536752: Applet not transparent Set TomboyNotesModule.tomboy to None when module is stopped Fixed bug #537694: Search history broken Made OpenBeagleFileAction backwards compatible Fixed bug #538425: local variable 'stream' referenced before assignment wikipedia-suggest.py: Only add match when the result contains the expected number of columns Utils.py: Don't import deskbar.core.Categories to solve cyclic dependency Added calculator module with permission from the original authors
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May 26, 2008
Stable version 2.22.2.1 released. Changes since 2.22.1:Fixed bug #534972: Exception in DeliciousHandler When checking Firefox version. Wait until the process terminated to avoid zombie processes. Fixed bug #520278: Window in sticky mode too small desklicious.py: Replace all whitespaces in query with spaces. Catch exception that might appear during parsing and cleanup correctly in any case. (fixes bug #484667) yahoo.py: Catch exception that might appear during parsing and cleanup correctly in any case. Adjust layout when applet is moved from one panel to another Fixed crash when two modules with same name should be loaded. Warn instead. Fixed bug #530057: Catch GError when making beagle call Fixed bug #527023: KeyError in beagle-live, when only directories are returned by beagle Fixed bug #522585: Crash when changing default browser Added support for Iceweasel browser. When the default browser is changed Mozilla and Iceweasel are supported, too. When Firefox is used and the command must contain Firefox instead of being exactly Firefox Use subprocess module instead of os.popen. Catch OSError when retrieving version (fixes bug #533842)
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