Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.
- From: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com>
- To: Adam Williamson <awilliam redhat com>
- Cc: gnome-shell-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.
- Date: Fri, 06 May 2011 22:46:19 +0200
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 13:24 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 21:19 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 11:07 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 18:51 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > >
> > > > Explaining:
> > > > Now I need to move it upwards, then downwards.
> > > >
> > > > If I want to start four apps in a row, which I do every day in the
> > > > morning, I can't go up and click-click-click-click, I need to
> > > > go up, go down and click,
> > > > go up, go down and click,
> > > > go up, go down and click,
> > > > go up, go down and click.
> > >
> > > You really want to be using the keyboard shortcut to access overview.
> > > It's much nicer than using the mouse, on a typical desktop/laptop.
> >
> > Trying.
> > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #1 launches.
> > Need to open Expose again, so:
> > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #2 launches.
> > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #3 launches.
> > Alt-F1, click -> Expose closes, app #4 launches.
> >
> > This is still much slower than click-click-click-click in Gnome 2.
>
> ..and you cut out the bit where I recommended the actually-sane solution
> - if you know you're always going to launch the same four apps, just set
> them to launch automatically on login. Since this is possible, it's
> understandable that 'launch a known set of multiple apps in quick
> succession' is not a key design target for Shell's launching behaviour,
> since if you're going to do that all the time there are better ways to
> do it anyway.
These four apps are: Firefox, Evolution, Xchat2 and terminal.
I don't want to launch and terminal every time 100% of time.
I do it when I came *to work*. I don't do it at home.
--
vda
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