On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 22:46 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 21:19 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:51 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > > > > > > > Explaining: > > > > > Now I need to move it upwards, then downwards. > > > > > > > > > > If I want to start four apps in a row, which I do every day in the > > > > > morning, I can't go up and click-click-click-click, I need to > > > > > go up, go down and click, > > > > > go up, go down and click, > > > > > go up, go down and click, > > > > > go up, go down and click. > > > > > > > > You really want to be using the keyboard shortcut to access overview. > > > > It's much nicer than using the mouse, on a typical desktop/laptop. > > > > > > Trying. > > > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #1 launches. > > > Need to open Expose again, so: > > > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #2 launches. > > > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #3 launches. > > > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #4 launches. > > > > > > This is still much slower than click-click-click-click in Gnome 2. > > > > ..and you cut out the bit where I recommended the actually-sane solution > > - if you know you're always going to launch the same four apps, just set > > them to launch automatically on login. Since this is possible, it's > > understandable that 'launch a known set of multiple apps in quick > > succession' is not a key design target for Shell's launching behaviour, > > since if you're going to do that all the time there are better ways to > > do it anyway. > > These four apps are: Firefox, Evolution, Xchat2 and terminal. > I don't want to launch and terminal every time 100% of time. > I do it when I came *to work*. I don't do it at home.
If you want to launch them *VERY* easily assign a keybinding to the apps. I assign a keybinding to GNOME Terminal for instance. System -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
