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Re: [Ayatana] super+n+up/down/home to rearrange launcher icons.

seems like it'd be easier to have a few arrangements that you could use hot keys to swap to.  
that way instead of having to rearrange your launcher each time you could just the key command once and you're finished.  
or for that matter why not make it so the user could add or remove the number of launcher arrangements to their liking.
would it be too difficult to have it set up similarly to how you manually add launcher quicklists to the launcher items themselves? 
you know something having a config file like

Arrangements=Art1;Media2;Whut3

[Art1 Arrangement]
shortcut=ALT+SUPER+1
launchers= /home/USER/myShortcuts/blender.desktop, /home/USER/myShortcuts/mypaint2.desktop, gimp.desktop

[Media2 Arrangement]
shortcut=ALT+SUPER+2
launchers= /home/USER/myShortcuts/Exaile.desktop, vlc.desktop, mplayer.desktop

[Whut3 Arrangement]
shortcut=ALT+SUPER+3
launchers= /home/USER/myShortcuts/home.desktop, /home/USER/myShortcuts/chromium.desktop

the user wouldn't really have to type each .desktop into the list they wanted. after creating the arrangement they could simply swap to it and add/remove things like normal.


On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I rearrange launcher entries fairly often as I change contexts. For instance, when I'm programming, the terminal is 3, geany is 4, bazaar-explorer is 5, etc. When I'm playing the guitar, then Audacity is 3, Tuxguitar is 4, etc. This makes it very easy for me to switch between apps using one hand and I really love it.

However, it just dawned on me that I always use the mouse to rearrange those entries. That should not be necessary. I should be able to press super+3downdowndown to move the third entry down to the sixth place, super+5upup to move 5 to 3, and so forth.

I should also be able to press super+7+del to remove the seventh entry from the launcher. Similar, I should be able to press super+5+home to keep the fifth entry on the launcher.

It would also be nice if I could use super+4rightarrow to expose its quicklist and then use up and down to navigate that menu.

What do you think?

Jo-Erlend Schinstad

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