On 09/22/2011 01:19 PM, Naba Kumar wrote:
Hi,
I use Alt+F2 a lot to launch apps and at the same time the "dash
search" to launch apps is an awesome feature. But in 11.10, Alt+f2 is
different from dash-search (although they look similar). Dash search
is where I click the ubuntu launcher, type the app name/description
and be able to launch it. While alt+f2 seems to search only binary
executable names and expects to type in the command explicitly. The
two modes seem confusing.
For example, trying the two with "screenshot" search, dash-search gets
the right application, while Alt-F2 doesn't get anything useful.
Why not just have dash-search with Alt-F2 - it appears to search
binary names too? I think Alt-F2 command mode is a legacy that is
already redundant with dash-search. I may be wrong here, but I thought
that's how it was in 11.04 before, and somehow got changed in 11.10?
Yes Dash search and Alt-F2 are very different. Alt-F2 is primarily
intended to run command lines and is not a search utility as such, it
just happens to have some "clever string completion" :-)
You probably want to just hit <super> to search for stuff. This
activates the normal dash mode. Or <super>-a,f,m to access the
applications, files, or music lenses respectively.
Cheers,
Mikkel
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