Re: Persistant Activities Menu

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

Hey,

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 19:12 +0100, Christopher Baines wrote:
> Initially after starting my computer, I usually want to start a few
> applications, so I start Firefox, then the activities menu closes, then
> I open it and start Evolution, then the activities menu closes, then I
> open it and start Liferea. You get the picture. 

You can drag launchers to a workspace to launch them there without
leaving the overview, but it's hardly a good solution.


> I think the best solution to this would be to allow the Super key to be
> held down and keep the Activities menu open while launching
> applications?

Indeed that has been suggested before[0]. The main problem is that it
would effectively block <super> from being used as modifier key. Despite
the obvious flames, it might still be the right thing to do though ...

Florian

[0] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=622700