On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 09:14 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Trans <transfire gmail com> wrote: > > A long time ago I used an early DOS-based application, I believe it > > was a spreadsheet, but I do not recall the exact program at this > > point. However I do recollect the interface which I thought was > > especially intuitive. Running along the bottom of the screen was a > > menu, and each menu item could be selected via a function key. F1 for > > the first menu item, F2 for the next, and so on. Pressing a function > > key might bring up a sub-menu, and the same correspondence applied to > > the sub-menu. This is actually very *non-standard* use of function keys. And applications use function keys - so they are bound to the window with focus not the window manager. But Alt-F1 or Meta will change GNOME3 to overview mode. From there you can keywords search and use arrow keys for navigation. For example - for me - Alt-F1, g, e, down-error, enter This starts the application geany. Awesome, efficient, and very fast. There are standardized function key behaviors, off the top of my head: F1 - is help F5 - is refresh F11 - is full-screen But you can bind custom hot keys to start applications. For example I have Ctrl-Alt-T set to start a new gnome-terminal. > > So, why do I think this would be advantageous? No, not over how application search works currently. > > Firstly, function keys are almost never utilized for application > > functions any more. Eh??? This is completely false.
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