Re: Staying In the Activities Area When Launching Applications

[Jon Kristensen <jon kristensen nejla se>]

 On 10/31/2010 11:10 AM, Joern Konopka wrote:
> Of course this raises some questions (at least with me ;) like:
>
> -How do you get users to know about this option
>
> -After opening f.e. Firefox while holding Ctrl, will it mean the Activities will hide again if I let go or will it just be staying open and wait for new input?
>
> But overall I really like the Sound of this, especially the "Stack up Actions without re-entering the Menu" Part.
>
> http://twitter.com/cldx3000
>
> On 31.10.2010, at 10:15, Milan Bouchet-Valat<nalimilan club fr>  wrote:
>
> > Le dimanche 31 octobre 2010 à 06:40 +0100, Jon Kristensen a écrit :
> > > What do you think about this idea:
> > >
> > > When first starting my computer I usually want to start a number of
> > > applications that I do not want to autostart. So what I do is that I
> > > type "firefox" and press Enter, press the system key to get back to the
> > > activities area, type something else and press Enter, etc, etc, etc.
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to instead of pressing Enter pressing something
> > > like Ctrl + Enter and NOT have the activities area close. So I
> > > immediately could start typing again. This behaviour could be the same
> > > for mouse clicks; Ctrl + Left Mouse Click opens an application while
> > > keeping the activities area open.
> > This can be a good idea, I think you should file a bug report with this
> > proposal, so that designers can comment on it.
> >
> > For now, you can already drag and drop applications to the workspace
> > area, this will achieve waht you want (of course, it would be easier if
> > you didn't have to use/move the mouse).
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
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I have created a bug here: 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633671. It contains my 
suggestions to the questions that you posted.

Take care!

Best,
Jon Kristensen