Re: Persistant Activities Menu

[Tim Cuthbertson <tim gfxmonk net>]

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 4:12 AM, Christopher Baines <cbaines8 gmail com> 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.
>
> 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?

Using the windows key for this might be hard. I've submitted a patch
to enable this behaviour when you hold down shift (like in a browser,
when it opens a link in a new tab / window). Nobody's said anything on
it yet, I guess the devs are pretty busy...

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649845