On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:55 +0100, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > On ven., 2011-03-18 at 14:48 +0000, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote: > > I cannot say anything about "normal users" but I am expecting (i.e. what > > I do when I press Alt+F2) to have combination of overview and terminal - > > something like in Gnome 2, Gnome-do or quicksilver. > > > > - I'm expecting to be able to run normal commands like pkill java. it > > is important if: > > a) Application does not have .desktop file > > b) If it receive arguments not specified in .desktop file > > - I'm expecting to be able to type description of program and get more > > or less auto-completed even if it does not match the exact command > I can see how this would be useful in this dialog, yes. > > > - I'd like to be able to search for recent documents. I always think > > that overview mode is distracting. > > - I'd like to be able to do more advanced stuff like in quicksilver or > > gnome-do. Say find a document I was recently working on (say odf or > > LaTeX document) and do some work on it (say convert it to pdf and attach > > to current e-mail). > IMHO, and I think it's how it was designed, this kind of more complex > feature should be in the overview, maybe as an extension. Definitely not > in the Alt+F2 dialog. I thought so. I'd love to have some blessed gnome-shell-extentions repo which would follow release cycle of Gnome... > The overview shouldn't considered be > "distracting": it's the main area to run actions from the Shell. And > it's already where you can find your recent documents (provided your > system apps are built with GTK3). > > Cheers > Real live example - it happend to me 3 days ago. I was writing a report and I needed to do some calculations. When going to overview mode I do have feeling that I am switching task. On the other hand with Alt+F2 I don't have any window movement and I stay focus on task. I remember what I am doing right now. The additional benefit of Alt+F2 is that it is cross-platform. Regards
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