Re: We want task bar back. Pretty please.

[Elia Cogodi <elia cogodi gmail com>]

What we're really talking about now is batch launching, so there were
better solutions in gnome 2 and there are better solutions in gnome
shell

1) install alacarte if you haven't
2) open alacarte and click "new item"
3) create a launcher with name e.g. "Work Batch"
4) write the command e.g. as: su -c "firefox & evolution & xchat &
gnome-terminal"
5) select an icon if you want, save and exit

You can have different batch launchers for home, for when you're
working on the road or whatever situations.
In Gnome 2 you could have embedded them in a panel, thus going to 1
click instead of N for each set of N applications.
In Gnome Shell you tap windows key and type "work b" (or even less
letters) and press enter. If you name them with some criteria you can
display all your batch launchers by typing something like "batch".

The fact that you found a workaround to your real needs (batch
launching) in gnome 2 ( click on N icons in sequence ) that was
marginally better for you than gnome shell's way (tap window key, drag
N icons in sequence, tap again) in my opinion doesn't make it a very
interesting case for displaying N icons all the time in a system bar.

At best, it makes the case to allow easily building batch launchers
without resorting to "advanced" tools. As an expert user, you can
deal- other users might find useful an extension or extra core
features developed in the future.

On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk redhat com> 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.
>
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    Elia