It may sound off-topic, but it's related I think: Up until Beta 2 was released, I had this "bug" (I don't know if it's fixed, as I had to do a clean install on my laptop and didn't have time to install Beta 2 yet). When I installed Gnome-Shell (yes, blasphemer) Alt-F2 did NOT work there at all. Somehow, I think Alt-F2 is too strongly tied to Unity and it just did not work with Gnome-Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (it's possible that it would not work on any other DE but Unity). Is Canonical's position that Gnome-Shell is not supported, or should the dev's make effort to have this functionality (and others, possibly, but that would be really off-topic to discuss here) work with Gnome-Shell (and other DE's a user might install) as well? I think it all comes to how Alt-F2 is implemented and therefore it is on-topic ;)
Eylem On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schins...@gmail.com> wrote: > Den 28. sep. 2011 11:51, skrev Ian Santopietro: >> >> But Alt-F1 triggers keyboard navigation of the launcher, not the dash. You >> can switch directlyfrom there to either dash or the Run dialog without any >> other action. To open the dash, briefly press and release Super, which is a >> very different shortcut from Alt-F2, and not likely to be confused. It is >> true they look identical and serve very different functions, but be cause >> they are each accessed so differently, it's unlikely that a user would open >> one when they meant to open the other. >> > Agreed. >> >> And one might use "killall Thunderbird" to terminate Thunderbird if it >> freezes. It was a rhetorical >> > One might do that, but it would have little effect. :) >> >> example, but the point is that sometimes it is useful to run a command >> without opening a terminal, particularly if you would then immediately close >> the terminal. If I want to actually run a command in a terminal, then I >> place a terminal shortcut in launcher position #7 (for example) and the can >> subsequently press Super-7 to open the terminal, at which point I can run my >> command. >> > I think that's the proper way to do it. I don't think I've ever checked the > checkbox in the old alt+f2 dialog to run a command in a terminal. And back > then, that was usually much faster to open than the terminal. It's just > never been comfortable and I'm glad that option is gone. >> >> This is equally as fast as the Windows examples, and doesn't rely on >> exposing the command prompt to new users (which is a good thing). For >> one-offs, I can still use Alt-F2. >> >> > Ah, a voice of reason. :) > > Jo-Erlend Schinstad > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
