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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

Yes Dash search and Alt-F2 are very different. Alt-F2 is primarily 
intended to run command lines and is not a search utility as such, it 
just happens to have some "clever string completion" :-)

You probably want to just hit <super> to search for stuff. This 
activates the normal dash mode. Or <super>-a,f,m to access the 
applications, files, or music lenses respectively.

Cheers,
Mikkel