Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 22:46 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> 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.

If you want to launch them *VERY* easily assign a keybinding to the
apps. I assign a keybinding to GNOME Terminal for instance.

System -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts