Re: [orca-list] Unity 2d is going away: What will happen to accessibility in 12.10

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

Hi Thomas,
That sounds great.
I will also give it a try in that case.
Having a way to set hot keys for launching apps is wonderful.
happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 05/10/2012 10:18 PM, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How do you figure that? I'm using Gnome Shell right now on this laptop
> and I can pretty  much do everything I need to in Gnome Shell. Yeah,
> getting access to the launchers in the Dash is a bit of a pain, but
> that's what the run dialog is for. :D
>
> I can easily do alt+f2, type firefox, and press enter to launch the
> program. That's not too hard to do. If I really needaccess to the
> launcher typing the first few letters of the app's name into the Dash
> will bring up a list of matches to choose from so its not impossible
> to use the Dash. Just not as friendly as the Launcher Toolbar in
> Unity. However, saying Gnome Shell isn't friendly is underestimating
> how accessible it is in the hole.
>
> For example, I have assigned hot keys  to launch most of my programs
> so I don't even have to worry about the Dash most of the time. If I
> press alt+control+f I open up Firefox. If I press alt+control+t I open
> the terminal. If I press alt+control+h it opens my home directory in
> Nautilus. You see my point. therebeing Gnome Shell is quite usable
> right now, and I imagine 3.6 will be even better yet.
>
> On 5/10/12, Krishnakant Mane<krmane gmail com>  wrote:
> > Just that Gnome shell is not really friendly.
> > Happy hacking.
> > Krishnakant.
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