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选题[tech]: 20211214 Fly-Pie: An Interesting Menu Launcher for Users Who Rely on Mouse
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[#]: subject: "Fly-Pie: An Interesting Menu Launcher for Users Who Rely on Mouse"
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[#]: via: "https://itsfoss.com/fly-pie/"
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[#]: author: "Ankush Das https://itsfoss.com/author/ankush/"
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[#]: collector: "lujun9972"
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Fly-Pie: An Interesting Menu Launcher for Users Who Rely on Mouse
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_**Brief:** Fly-Pie is a unique menu launcher for GNOME that makes several actions accessible for a mouse-centric user._
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An application launcher makes things convenient to quickly navigate to an active window, launch a new app, and so on.
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[Ulauncher][1] is one such application launcher to use if your Linux distribution does not offer any out-of-the-box.
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If that spikes your interest already, you will find Fly-Pie interesting! An application launcher tailored for users who primarily use a mouse and always place one hand to navigate using the mouse instead of the keyboard.
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![][2]
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### Fly-Pie: Customizable Menu That Works as a GNOME Shell Extension
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Yes, unfortunately, Fly-Pie is for GNOME users only. I’m not sure if there is something similar for KDE or other desktop environments; drop your suggestions in the comments box if you know.
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Fly-Pie focuses on providing visually interactive icons for shortcuts, applications, media controls, maximize/minimize window, workspace navigation, and more options than a traditional application launcher.
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It branches out to children sub-menus and grand-children menu as you expand further. So, you can have a lot of use-cases, and it should facilitate powerful navigation capabilities using the mouse or touchpad.
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The best thing is- it is highly customizable. You can choose a background image, color, customize the icons, branch menus, and more.
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Let me highlight some of its capabilities while mentioning the features available.
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### Features of Fly-Pie
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Fly-Pie gives you an exciting navigation capability if you are a mouse-centric or touchpad user. For obvious reasons, if you are a power keyboard user, this isn’t for you (but you should give it a try!).
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Here are some of the key features that you can expect with Fly-Pie:
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* Use a keyboard shortcut to launch the Fly-Pie menu
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* Ability to add media controls and workspace navigation to the menu
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* Add custom icons to personalize the menu for your desktop
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* Add favorite apps for quick access
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* Close an app window
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* Check for running apps at a glance and navigate to the window
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* Customize the animation for the menu to appear and disappear
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* Ability to adjust opacity if you want it to stay on your screen as an overlay all the time
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* Adjust the trace line connecting the sub-menus
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* You can set a threshold or stroke angle to customize the user experience as per your mouse and touchpad sensitivity
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* Fine grain controls to change the color, customize the icon, and more
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* Ability to customize the sub-menu and the grandchildren menu
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* Check livepreview to easily customize and test the menu before using it
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* Select items by drawing gestures
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In addition to the features, it also adds an achievement functionality to encourage the user to explore a variety of use-cases with the menu tool.
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Here is an official YouTube video by the developer that shows it in action:
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### Installing Fly-Pie in Linux
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Considering it as a GNOME extension, you will have to first [set things to be able to use GNOME extensions on your Linux distribution][7].
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Once you are done with the setup, you can head to [Fly-Pie’s GNOME extension page][8] and easily install the extension.
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You should be able to uninstall it from there and access the settings. If you are curious, you can explore its [GitHub page][9] for more information.
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The GitHub page also includes documentation to help you explore all of its capabilities.
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[Fly-Pie GNOME Extension][8]
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### Thoughts on Using Fly-Pie Menu Launcher
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The Fly-Pie menu is not exactly meant to replace the application launcher. However, depending on your use-case, it could come in extremely handy as an overlay-based menu or a mouse-centric launcher to access options/applications.
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Even though it is customizable, the stock looks the best and blends in easily with any type of theme you have going on in your Linux desktop.
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It is impressive to find fine-grained tweaks to customize the icons, scaling, color, transparency, and more. You can play around with it if you prefer.
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Considering I am not someone who navigates using the keyboard, Fly-Pie looks like a useful GNOME extension to have that saves time, and adds a unique point to the desktop experience.
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Even if you think this is not for you, I would suggest trying it out just to explore how it works, it is interesting indeed!
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What do you think about Fly-Pie? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments down below.
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via: https://itsfoss.com/fly-pie/
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作者：[Ankush Das][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://itsfoss.com/author/ankush/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://itsfoss.com/ulauncher/
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[2]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fly-pie-feat.png?resize=800%2C556&ssl=1
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[3]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fly-pie.png?resize=800%2C443&ssl=1
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[4]: https://i0.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fly-pie-media-control.png?resize=789%2C586&ssl=1
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[5]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fly-pie-global-appearance.png?resize=753%2C797&ssl=1
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[6]: https://i1.wp.com/itsfoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/fly-pie-menu-editor-new.png?resize=800%2C749&ssl=1
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[7]: https://itsfoss.com/gnome-shell-extensions/
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[8]: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/3433/fly-pie/
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[9]: https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie
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