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<p><span style="font-size: 1.5em; font-weight:bold">QuickLaunch</span><br />
for <a href="http://www.haiku-os.org">Haiku</a><br />
<i>by Humdinger</i></p>
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<p id="index"><a href="#tips">Tips & Tricks</a> — <a href="#download">Download</a> — <a href="#bugs_feedback">Bugreports & Feedback</a> — <a href="#thanks">Thanks</a> — <a href="#history">History</a></p>
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<p>QuickLaunch is a small launcher tool that helps you to quickly start any installed application.</p>
<p>Simply start to enter the name of an application and QuickLaunch will find all programs matching these initial letters and show them in a list. You choose an app from that list with the <span class="key">CursorUp/Down</span> keys and launch it by hitting <span class="key">Return</span>. <span class="key">Escape</span> quits QuickLaunch.</p>
<p>Here's the main window after searching for all applications starting with "dis" and the settings window when clicking the <i>Setup</i> button:</p>
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<p>The setup window shows four options:</p>
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<li>Show the version of an application — only really useful when having older and newer versions of an app installed.</li>
<li>Show the path to an application — interesting when you have several copies of an application.</li>
<li>Wait for a second letter before starting the search — probably only useful for slow systems.</li>
<li>Ignore files & folders (and their subfolders) that you can add and remove from the list with the buttons at the bottom. You can also right-click an app in the main window's result list to add that specific app to the ignore list.</li>
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<a id="tips" name="tips">Tips & Tricks</a></h2>
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<li>Assign a keycombo to QuickLaunch in Haiku's Shortcuts preferences, like <span class="key">Opt</span>+<span class="key">Spacebar</span>, for even quicker QuickLaunching apps.</li>
<li>Use '*' as wildcards, e.g. "*play" for all apps with "play" in their name.</li>
<li><span class="key">Shift</span>+<span class="key">Return</span> will keep the QuickLaunch window open after launching the app.</li>
<li><span class="key">Ctrl</span>+<span class="key">Return</span> will open an app's location in Tracker instead of launching it.</li>
<li>These folders are ignored by default:<br />
<span style="font-family: monospace">B_SYSTEM_ADDONS_DIRECTORY and B_TRASH_DIRECTORY</span><br />
In other words, applications in Trash are ignored, as well as add-ons.<br />
B_SYSTEM_BIN_DIRECTORY used to be ignored, but since especially ported software often ends up in the /bin folder, that is a bad idea. You'll have to remove unwanted commandline apps manually now, e.g. via the context menu.</li>
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<a id="download" name="download">Download</a></h2>
<p>QuickLaunch is directly available through HaikuDepot from the HaikuPorts repository.<br />
You can also build it yourself using <a href="https://bitbucket.org/haikuports/haikuports/wiki/Home">Haikuporter</a>. The source is hosted at <a href="http://sourceforge.net/p/quicklaunch-h/code/ci/master/tree/">SourceForge</a>.</p>
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<a id="bugs_feedback" name="bugs_feedback">Bugreports & Feedback</a></h2>
<p>Please use sourceforge's <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/quicklaunch-h/support?source=navbar">bugreport form</a> if you experience unusual difficulties or email your general feedback to <a href="mailto:humdinger@gmail.com">me</a>. Also, email me if you'd like to provide more localizations.</p>
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<a id="thanks" name="thanks">Thanks</a></h2>
<p> I have to thank DarkWyrm for some helpful hints and for some of the code I re-used from his RunProgram app and his EscapeCancelFilter.<br />
Equally useful was Robert Polic's EZLauncher of BeNewsletter 3-46 and the help I got on the #haiku IRC channel.<br />
Finally, thanks to everyone that contributed translations for QuickLaunch.</p>
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<a id="history" name="history">History</a></h2>
<p><b>0.9.0</b> - <i>01-02-2010:</i></p>
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<li>Initial release.</li>
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<p><b>0.9.1</b> - <i>04-02-2010:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Show version info to distinguish different versions of the same app.</li>
<li>Home/End key jump to first/last item.</li>
<li>Shift+Return will keep the QL window open.</li>
<li>Added script to add QL to the Deskbar tray. Remove via context menu (Removal will only work with Haiku > r35402, for lower revisions, open Terminal and enter "desklink --remove=DeskButton".)</li>
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<p><b>0.9.2</b> - <i>04-03-2010:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Add setup window to toggle version and path information.</li>
<li>Ignore user definable folders.</li>
<li>Make main window horizontally resizable.</li>
<li>Remember window position and size.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.3</b> - <i>05-03-2010:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Ignore path information wasn't loaded correctly.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.4</b> - <i>11-03-2010:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Added Control+Return to open an app's location in Tracker.</li>
<li>Added live-truncating of strings on window resize.</li>
<li>The query now returns only app names beginning with the search string and now starts right after entering the first letter.</li>
<li>Better handling of different system font size settings.</li>
<li>Less restrictive window size limits.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.5</b> - <i>17-05-2010:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Ignore Trash on all volumes, not just on /boot.</li>
<li>Be stricter on the apps' signature. They have to conform to the standard and start with "application/x-vnd". This avoids listing e.g, libraries.</li>
<li>PageUp and PageDown keys now work in the result list.</li>
<li>Case-insentive sorting.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.6</b> - <i>14-10-2013:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Small changes to work under Haiku with package management.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.7</b> - <i>17-05-2014:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Added a setting to only start searching after entering a second letter of the application name.</li>
<li>Respecting custom colours set in Appearance preferences.</li>
<li>Better handling of bigger/smaller font sizes.</li>
<li>Renamed "jokers" to "wildcards".</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.8</b> - <i>02-01-2015:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Fixed a crash on quit. No idea how it has worked all these years, frankly.</li>
<li>Removed a never used variable and its get/set functions.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.9</b> - <i>15-01-2015:</i></p>
<ul>
<li>Don't ignore /system/bin/ by default. Now that more and more ports are available for Haiku, some GUI apps do appear in that folder...</li>
</ul>
<p><b>0.9.10</b> - <i>15-06-2015:</i></p>
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<li>Allow specific files in the ignore list, not only complete folders (and their subfolders).</li>
<li>Show a context menu when right-clicking an app to quickly add it to the ignore list.</li>
<li>Scroll to original location in the app list instead of jumping to the top after adding to the ignore list.</li>
<li>Updated icon to show three app cubes as Q stroke.</li>
<li>Localization for German, Dutch, Japanese, Polish.</li>
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