-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Ayatana] Dash search vs Alt+F2 in 11.10 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:27 +0200 From: Michal Strba <faiface2...@gmail.com> To: Naba Kumar <naba.ku...@gmail.com> 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? Thanks. Regards, -Naba _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Hello! Alt-F2 is not for launching apps (but can be used for it) but for executing a command. You can type any valid command such as: gnome-terminal gedit ~/example.txt compiz --replace export x=hello In Unity, the Alt-F2 has a history and "auto-completion" but it does not means that it is same thing as dash. Dash is for finding and launching apps (or files) but Alt-F2 is for executing command. P.S.: I forget to reply list so i forwarded it to list now
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