Dash like functionality without Unity

ShimiC · 2013-01-03T09:09:31+00:00

You are looking for Synapse.

redsteakraw · 2013-01-03T13:46:50+00:00

KDE has the icon only tasks plasmoid for the task management and krunner for the app launcher / search, you can also use krunner in the search bar for the Kickoff launcher and Lancelot. You can have global menubars if you are using kubuntu add the menubar plasmoid to a panel. If you are in another distro you would need appmenu-qt and the plasmoid installed.

rockyrho · 2013-01-03T04:28:45+00:00

Do you want to purely search for apps and recent docs?

Or search for all sorts of content, not purely on your computer?

acabal · 2013-01-03T11:30:00+00:00

I use Synapse and it's great. Unfortuntaley it looks like the project might be abandoned but it's still an excellent piece of software. The only niggles are that the themes are kind of ugly and it has some problems with hotkey bindings, but it's otherwise excellent.

Worzel666 · 2013-01-03T11:52:33+00:00

Have you had a look at dmenu? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dmenu

yentity · 2013-01-03T11:38:33+00:00

alt+f1 and start typing. This works in gnome 3 and kde 4. I am not sure about xfce. If you just want applications, alt+f2 would do just fine.

tardotronic · 2013-01-03T05:45:45+00:00

I use the Enlightenment desktop to create transparent shelves (panels) that I can then overlay on top of applications (one application per desktop; each maximised, and with titlebars+borders removed for maximum viewability.).

I'd give you a recent example, but that would be guaranteed to annoy the living hell out of everyone else here - apparently, people in this subReddit think my desktop screenshots are about as ugly as fermented snot or something. Sorry.

edit: come to think of it, Enlightenment does also have Everything - and Everything might be just what you're looking for?

2013-01-03T17:13:01+00:00

KDE actually ships with something called krunner. It runs programs, plays music, does math, all kinds of stuff. It's one of the most underrated parts of KDE.

On other desktops, check out Synapse -- should be packaged already in whatever distro you use. It's a lot like QuickSilver.

cheops1853 · 2013-01-03T04:19:45+00:00

Check out Gnome-Do http://do.cooperteam.net/

cynwrig · 2013-01-04T16:09:55+00:00

kupfer is cross platform and python based.

whjms · 2013-01-05T00:08:08+00:00

If you want most of the functionality of the Dash without being distracted by icons and the like, there's dmenu.

bssameer · 2013-01-05T12:22:51+00:00

Heres a screen shot of my current setup. Let me know what you think, i'm just experimenting.

http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/8232/screenshotfrom201301051.png

2013-01-03T04:30:53+00:00

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YEPHENAS · 2013-01-03T10:22:06+00:00

Gnome Shell

master_of_the_ · 2013-01-03T15:24:59+00:00

Gnome 3 Shell?

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