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[Michal Strba <faiface2202@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Subject: 	Re: [Ayatana] Dash search vs Alt+F2 in 11.10
Date: 	Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:02:27 +0200
From: 	Michal Strba <faiface2202@xxxxxxxxx>
To: 	Naba Kumar <naba.kumar@xxxxxxxxx>



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?
>
>  Thanks.
>
>  Regards,
>  -Naba
>
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Hello!

Alt-F2 is not for launching apps (but can be used for it) but for
executing a command. You can type any valid command such as:
gnome-terminal
gedit ~/example.txt
compiz --replace
export x=hello

In Unity, the Alt-F2 has a history and "auto-completion" but it does not
means that it is same thing as dash. Dash is for finding and launching
apps (or files) but Alt-F2 is for executing command.

P.S.: I forget to reply list so i forwarded it to list now