Re: Idea: having a hotkey, dialog box for searching apps?

[Onyeibo Oku <twohotis gmail com>]

On Sat, 2011-04-09 at 13:13 -0400, G. Michael Carter wrote:
> There's one scenario with Gnome 3 that's really awkward for me.   And
> is when F15 is released is going to be awkward for my wife who's
> taking university classes from home.
> 
> 
> I have a video playing in the corner of the screen.   Now I want to
> take some notes on a scene currently taking place, how do you bring up
> gedit without the need to pause the video (if the video can be paused
> at all -- live webcasts don't pause --), open the overview page, type
> gedit, then come back replay the video and hope the stream didn't die
> (which would cause me to have to start over and start fast forwarding)

1. Put Gedit in Favourites (dash).
2. During Play, hit the 'windows' button & click gedit
3. Pray that Gedit doesn't start Maximized :)
4. Clean, no visual interruption