Affinity Affinity project is a desktop search tool which provides a front-end to various desktop information.
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Affinity project is a desktop search tool which provides a front-end to various desktop information. Affinity project is a desktop search tool which provides a front-end to various desktop information.Affinty is a desktop search tool, which hopes to provide a quick way to get at all the different information on your desktop. It achieves this by having various back-ends, but implemented through one standard interface.Here are some key features of "Affinity":· Front-end to both the Beagle & Tracker desktop search engines. · Has actions (configurable through Desktop files), whihc speed up common tasks. · Has in-built, user-configurable, filters which work in the the entry box, so typing 'pics:london' will only bring up pictures. · Super-fast application searching through an in-built list of applications. · Colours can be customised to your taste. · Lives in the system-tray, but can be called by a global key stroke. Default is Ctrl+Alt+a, but you can change it to anything you like! · Written in C for minimal impact on your system, but maximum speed!Hints:· Pressing Ctrl-L in the main search window will focus the entry widget. · Pressing Esc will hide the Affinity window. · The default global keystroke is Alt>A, this will hide or un-hide Affinity. · You can configure the global keystroke by navigating to /apps/affinity in gconf-editor, and changing the global_key_binding value. You must restart Affinity for the changes to take effect. · Use affinity-preferences to changes colours, filters & system applications. · When you change a colour in affinity-preferences, you may need to hide/show the window for the changes to take effect. · Clicking on the notification area icon will show/hide the window, right-clicking will bring up a pop-up menu that will allow you to exit Affinity.Bugs:· Scrolling up & down fast on the tree view will leave artifacts, which disappear if you run your mouse over it or press a button. · If it segfaults, please try svn.Requirements:· gnome-vfs-2.0 and devel· gtk+2.0 >= 2.10 and devel· libgnome and devel· gconf-2.0 and devel· gnome-desktop and devel· beagle and develSVN Installation:· Open a terminal and typesvn checkout http://affinity-search.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ affinity-search(you must have subversion installed)· then run:./autogen.shmakesudo make install

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