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[Jo-Erlend Schinstad <joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx>]

Den 28. sep. 2011 11:51, skrev Ian Santopietro:
> But Alt-F1 triggers keyboard navigation of the launcher, not the dash. 
> You can switch directlyfrom there to either dash or the Run dialog 
> without any other action. To open the dash, briefly press and release 
> Super, which is a very different shortcut from Alt-F2, and not likely 
> to be confused. It is true they look identical and serve very 
> different functions, but be cause they are each accessed so 
> differently, it's unlikely that a user would open one when they meant 
> to open the other.
Agreed.
> And one might use "killall Thunderbird" to terminate Thunderbird if it 
> freezes. It was a rhetorical
One might do that, but it would have little effect. :)
> example, but the point is that sometimes it is useful to run a command 
> without opening a terminal, particularly if you would then immediately 
> close the terminal. If I want to actually run a command in a terminal, 
> then I place a terminal shortcut in launcher position #7 (for example) 
> and the can subsequently press Super-7 to open the terminal, at which 
> point I can run my command.
I think that's the proper way to do it. I don't think I've ever checked 
the checkbox in the old alt+f2 dialog to run a command in a terminal. 
And back then, that was usually much faster to open than the terminal. 
It's just never been comfortable and I'm glad that option is gone.
> This is equally as fast as the Windows examples, and doesn't rely on 
> exposing the command prompt to new users (which is a good thing). For 
> one-offs, I can still use Alt-F2.
Ah, a voice of reason. :)

Jo-Erlend Schinstad