implement frecency sorting?

[unhammer]

Version

Version: 1.3.1

Configuration

https://gist.github.com/unhammer/a2484e704cdc05395d997ad7cd072490

Launch Command

rofi -modi combi -show combi -combi-modi "drun,run,ssh,window"

Steps to reproduce

• Start caja four times from rofi
• Let some weeks pass
• Start corebird three times from rofi

What behaviour you see

• after typing core, the top drun hit is Caja

What behaviour you expect to see

• Corebird as the top drun hit, since it was used more recently.

I saw that frecency was mentioned in #194 , but the "fix" there was disabling Levenshtein sorting. I really like having Levenshtein on, though (also, it seems necessary to get drun matches on Name fields of .desktop files?). A better fix in my opinion would be to implement https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/Places/Frecency_algorithm (as used by Firefox and https://github.com/clvv/fasd). Simply sorting by most used means programs you stopped using will hang around and annoy you long afterwards.

[DaveDavenport]

FWIW: You can hit shift-delete to remove an item from history.

It is an interesting idea.

[unhammer]

FWIW: You can hit shift-delete to remove an item from history.

When I tried, this didn't seem to have an effect (I ended up just starting corebird a bunch more times, which "worked" …)

[DaveDavenport]

Weird works for me (tm) even in combi mode.