Re: [Ayatana] [ayatana] Enter for quick selection in Unity menu

[Pablo Quirós <mr.polmac@xxxxxxxxx>]

I posted the same idea in the Ubuntu forums; I think the search shold show the results just like now, but highlighting one of them, that will be launched if the user presses enter. This would make it really useful and fast for the user.

And if it was like Gnome-Do, that learns from past user selections, it would really be great. In fact, maybe some code of Gnome-Do or similar applications could be used there.

2011/3/10 Anthony Hook <anthony.hook3@xxxxxxxxx>

I have an idea for functionality of the new Unity menu (Ubuntu button menu), when searching for an application/file to launch/open

I don't mean to compare the awesome searching/launching functionality of Unity's search to similar searching as done in Gnome-Do, but I find myself trying to press 'Enter' trying to launch the first item when I do a search for an application, to no avail.

For instance, when trying to find the application "Hydrogen", it's quite easy to:

[Super]hydro (as seen http://anthonyrhook.com/ubuntu/unitylaunch.png)

and seeing it at the top of the list, assume 'Enter' would launch it.  I'm not sure what other issues this may cause, as I would guess the first entry would have to be auto-highlighted for it to be launched/opened/etc.  Any other thoughts on this?  Perhaps it's been discussed and I'm late to the conversation, too.

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- Anthony Hook

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