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[Eylem Koca <eylemkoca@xxxxxxxxx>]

It may sound off-topic, but it's related I think: Up until Beta 2 was
released, I had this "bug" (I don't know if it's fixed, as I had to do
 a clean install on my laptop and didn't have time to install Beta 2
yet). When I installed Gnome-Shell (yes, blasphemer) Alt-F2 did NOT
work there at all. Somehow, I think Alt-F2 is too strongly tied to
Unity and it just did not work with Gnome-Shell on Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1
(it's possible that it would not work on any other DE but Unity).
Is Canonical's position that Gnome-Shell is not supported, or should
the dev's make effort to have this functionality (and others,
possibly, but that would be really off-topic to discuss here) work
with Gnome-Shell (and other DE's a user might install) as well? I
think it all comes to how Alt-F2 is implemented and therefore it is
on-topic ;)

Eylem


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad
<joerlend.schinstad@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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