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advice1010

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AppFinder - General and CSS questions

I was wondering if anyone can help me out with some questions I have about AppFinder and also about editing gtk.css file. 
I apologize for the amount of questions but this could be a good reference for other forum users in the future.

Probably will put in requests for some of the items mentioned in this post because many seem like they should be settings, but I think most of these questions will probably require CSS to achieve.

1.) Is it possible to hide the bar at bottom containing "Preferences" and "Launch" button?
If not the bar, maybe can the at least hide the buttons (maybe with CSS opaque setting)?

2.) If the bottom bar can be hidden completely, it appears that Preferences (Settings) are built into the application itself, unlike other XFCE based applications that have a separate command to open settings dialog.
Was wondering is there any way to assign a hotkey to access this settings dialog?
I know "ALT+P" works but if button is gone not sure that it will still work?

3.) Way to hide application descriptions and just show application name centered vertically with the center of the icon to its left?

4.) Font sizes
Way to change application name font size?
Way to change category name font size?
I tried these two and neither worked
#XfceAppfinderWindow { font-size: 24pt }
.XfceAppfinderWindow { font-size: 24pt }
(I plan on making a separate post about this because I still cannot seem to understand GTK Inspector.)

5.) Way to turn off mouse cursor hover over application label tags?
Probably tied to an overall XFCE setting, but ideally would like to achieve this just in AppFinder.

6.) Probably not going to show categories, but when I do, is there a reason/fix for why most of the categories show double entries?

7.) When first opened there is a magnifying glass icon to the left of the search field.
As you navigate this then changes to application icons.
This is really for AppFinder in collapsed mode, does not really make sense in expanded mode.
Would be nice for the magnifying glass to remain when in expanded mode.
I read post where user requested to remove this icon and the compromise was the developer mentioned he added way to do this using CSS.
Unfortunate that this will remove the icon from collapsed mode as well, but I am interested in trying this.
Does anyone know the CSS code for this?

8.) What does the context menu item `Add to Bookmarks` do?

Thank you to anyone who reads this and for any information anyone is willing to share

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: AppFinder - General and CSS questions

The biggest challenge that you will face with xfce4-appfinder is that it doesn't have any custom CSS style classes defined so its impossible to target just this application. Any changes you make to the css may affect other programs who have a similar widget layout. It might be worthwhile asking the developers to create at least a main CSS ID or style class for this application.

1.) Is it possible to hide the bar at bottom containing "Preferences" and "Launch" button?

window box box:nth-child(3) {opacity: 0; margin: -20px}

2.) If the bottom bar can be hidden completely, it appears that Preferences (Settings) are built into the application itself, unlike other XFCE based applications that have a separate command to open settings dialog.
Was wondering is there any way to assign a hotkey to access this settings dialog?
I know "ALT+P" works but if button is gone not sure that it will still work?

Correct, there is no other way to open the Preferences dialog. However, if using the code above, the preferences button is still there just hidden. Click in the spot where it should be will still open it.

3.) Way to hide application descriptions and just show application name centered vertically with the center of the icon to its left?

In Preferences, check both "View items as icons" and "Text beside icons".

4.) Font sizes
Way to change application name font size?
Way to change category name font size?

window>box>paned>.frame:nth-child(3) {background-color: red; font-size: 14pt}
window>box>paned>.frame:nth-child(1) {background-color: red; font-size: 20pt}

5.) Way to turn off mouse cursor hover over application label tags?

Not possible to do this for just xfce4-appfinder - would need a specific preference setting for this.

6.) Probably not going to show categories, but when I do, is there a reason/fix for why most of the categories show double entries?

Do you mean the category name appears doubled? Does it also happen in whiskermenu or the applicationsmenu plugin?

I read post where user requested to remove this icon and the compromise was the developer mentioned he added way to do this using CSS.
Unfortunate that this will remove the icon from collapsed mode as well, but I am interested in trying this.
Does anyone know the CSS code for this?

.application-icon {-gtk-icon-transform: scale(0);}
window>box>box>entry {margin-left: -50px}

8.) What does the context menu item `Add to Bookmarks` do?

Adds the entry to a "Bookmarks" category.

Again, the biggest challenge is that these may affect other apps on your system because xfce4-appfinder does not have its own CSS ID or style class.

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