[libreoffice-users] Feature Requests, general procedure and an Idea

Hello

First off, I'm relatively confident that this is the wrong mailing list for
this, but I'm not sure which would be a better place.

I have a feature request, and I'm not sure what to do with it.  I don't
believe it is a mature enough idea to submit as a feature request yet, and I
think its complexity far outweighs my programming skills.

I'd like to gauge others' interest, the ideal implementation, and the level
of complexity and effort required to implement (can it be done as a plugin,
etc?).

Thoughts or a better venue for this type of discussion are much
appreciated....I'd just like to get the ball rolling on this as an eventual
feature.


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My idea is that the office should have an integrated command-window at the
application level... something like Gnome-Do or the Spotlight/Quicksilver
apps on mac (the best implementation, IMHO is the "everything" plugin for
e17).

basically, a small window is shown on hitting a convenient keyboard shortcut
(or gui button of some type), into which arbitrary text is entered.
Entering text searches a number of frequently used documents or commands
along with (frequently-used) options for interacting with them.

Let's say my command is CTRL + Spacebar.  I hit CTRL + spacebar, type in
"foo", and it offers to search the current document(s) for "foo", but might
also bring up a list of documents entitled "foo" to open (or switch between,
or perform other actions on), etc.

The point to offer very convenient keyboard (and mouse) access to features
by searching for their objects or the functions themselves, rather than
switching between keyboard/mouse or memorizing infrequently used keyboard
combinations.  The best way of getting a feel for this is to use Quicksilver
or Everything plugins for a bit and imagine the possibilities for in-app
implementation.  Office suites are the perfect place to add this into, as
they're already pretty heavily keyboard-centric.

Thoughts or directions on where I should take this?  Thanks,

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