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Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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I've been using search for everything since Windows 7. Just have to remember the first 3-5 letters, or a word, and I could open any programs and folders/files. The windows key was my desktop, the actual desktop is blank and black. Windows 10 has a messed up search, it shows useless (for me) stuff first, and never learns to prioritize results based on previous searches/keywords/accessed files. Maybe there's a way to f…

Have you tried Ueli? Has been working great for me: https://ueli.oliverschwendener.ch/

Looks good, I'll try it, thank you!

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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Wait what? I remember seeing this around 2010 - 2012, eagerly following it because it looked pretty good, and it turning out to bee mostly vaporware at some point. Did not expect this to make a comeback!

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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I've been using search for everything since Windows 7. Just have to remember the first 3-5 letters, or a word, and I could open any programs and folders/files. The windows key was my desktop, the actual desktop is blank and black. Windows 10 has a messed up search, it shows useless (for me) stuff first, and never learns to prioritize results based on previous searches/keywords/accessed files. Maybe there's a way to f…

I use Listary exactly for that. However I do keep the Windows key for programs, it seems to work well enough albeit not as fluid as Windows 7.

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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While this looks cool, I learned over time that basic Windows shell works just fine for productivity purposes: https://i.imgur.com/HC4evaK.jpg, and this would just add another layer on top which potentially requires maintenance, troubleshooting or debugging.

The only additional customization I have is a little utility I wrote in C++ that runs in background and provides hotkeys to launch Chrome, Sublime Text, Total Commander and Cmder via Win+1, Win+2, etc hotkeys.

And to run any other program, it is enough to hit Win key and start typing that programs name.

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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This looks very cool for an alternative shell for Windows, which is what I am seeing here but in all honesty, as soon I saw the title, it was easy to get this confused with the Cairo drawing library and associating that as a potentially new Linux "Desktop Environment" as the title outlines.

The project is technically very interesting for Windows 10 customisation, but the name is very similar with another established project in the same technical area of graphics, which may cause some confusion.

Perhaps the naming of this project was derived from Microsoft Cairo that was never released. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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While this looks cool, I learned over time that basic Windows shell works just fine for productivity purposes: https://i.imgur.com/HC4evaK.jpg , and this would just add another layer on top which potentially requires maintenance, troubleshooting or debugging. The only additional customization I have is a little utility I wrote in C++ that runs in background and provides hotkeys to launch Chrome, Sublime Text, Total C…

> The only additional customization I have is a little utility I wrote in C++ that runs in background and provides hotkeys to launch Chrome, Sublime Text, Total Commander and Cmder via Win+1, Win+2, etc hotkeys.

Why not just pin those programs to the taskbar?

Re: Cairo Desktop Environment

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I've been using search for everything since Windows 7. Just have to remember the first 3-5 letters, or a word, and I could open any programs and folders/files. The windows key was my desktop, the actual desktop is blank and black. Windows 10 has a messed up search, it shows useless (for me) stuff first, and never learns to prioritize results based on previous searches/keywords/accessed files. Maybe there's a way to f…

Have you tried Ueli? Has been working great for me: https://ueli.oliverschwendener.ch/

Wox and keyperinha are 2 more alternatives (wox with more plugins but less maintained). Both integrate "everything" for filesearch (it's a pity they don't use the 100 times faster WizFile)
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