From baf89148faf5cc42fc648b979291181c7be39f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qianming Xue Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:32:34 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update: README --- README.md | 17 +++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1ead56a4..a0ce54bd 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,9 +1,21 @@ Paletteau === -**Paletteau** aims to provide interactive command palette for Windows programs, which do not come with such functionality. **Paletteau** is a fork of [Wox](https://github.com/Wox-launcher/Wox). +Recent productive applications often come with a command palette, by which you can fuzzily search through all available commands. +For example, pressing `ctrl+shift+p` in vscode calls a fancy [command palette](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface#_command-palette). +Windows Terminal also provides a great [command palette](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/command-palette). + +Though most applications today doesn't provide such modern thing - or provided but doesn't work well (`ctrl-q` of visual studio, for example). + +**Paletteau** aims to provide interactive command palette for these programs. +Basically, it comes with a command table for each supported application. +Each command is mapping to a keyboard shortcut of the application. +When you select a command a command in Paletteau, it sends a key sequence to the application, just like you pressed the shortcut. +This way, Paletteau provides basic frequent functionality of supported applications without an intrusive agent in the application side. +It also causes **limitations**, too - we cannot trigger functionalities without a binding keyboard shortcut using Paletteau. + ![demo](https://i.imgur.com/DfuhETR.gif) Features @@ -13,7 +25,7 @@ Features - Use *pinyin* to search for programs / 支持用 **拼音** 搜索程序 - wyy / wangyiyun → 网易云音乐 - Customizable themes -- Develop plugins yourself +- Develop Paletteau plugins yourself - Highlighting of how results are matched during query search @@ -76,6 +88,7 @@ Call for Contribution - Any PR / issue is welcomed! - Meaningful work items for PRs: - Palettes for more programs! + - Theme adaption. Only dark theme is tuned for Paletteau for now. - Installer project. Build