Re: [Usability] Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access the start menu

["Saad Shakhshir" <shakhshir gmail com>]

The deskbar applet performs the function of the run dialog and much more.

On 8/20/06, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com > wrote:

On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 03:24 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:05:06 +0530
> > From: Ritesh Khadgaray <khadgaray gmail com>
> > To: Alan Horkan < horkana maths tcd ie>
> > Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart borgman 073 student lu se>, Usability gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [Usability] Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access the
> >     start menu
> >
> > On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 20:29 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:00:31 +0200
> > > > From: Lennart Borgman <lennart borgman 073 student lu se>
> > > > To: Usability gnome org
> > > > Subject: [Usability] Using Control-Esc and Windows keys to access the
> > > >     start menu
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I am new to this list. I have subscribed mainly because I want to become
> > > > a GNU/Linux user.
> > >
> > > (Gnome runs on FreeBSD and Solaris and many others too.  I want to be a
> > > Gnome user.)
> > >
> > > > Now I installed Ubuntu. Quite nice installation as far as I know.
> > > > However when the installation was finished I was not able to do
> > > > anything. I had no mouse at all on that computer.
> > >
> > > Ubuntu does make some customisations beyond stock Gnome so do keep that in
> > > mind.  I am very displeased at how they removed the Run Dialog (they hid
> > > it away making it totally undiscoverable but if you are lucky enough to
> > > arleady know Alt+F2 it is still available).
>
> > afaik, gnome removed run dialog during there over-simplification
> > process. aargh :(
>
> Are you sure?  I thought it was a distribution specific change.  I usually
> notice when these chagnes are made the Gnome level but I may well have
> missed it.
>
Double checked on fc rawhide, and mandriva cooker.No run dialog.
Someone was complaining of dumbing down of gnome interface, and run
dialog was one part.

> When the shortcut to the terminal was removed from the Panel I fully
> supported the move, safe in the knowledge that the Run dialog provided a
> central easily accessible point of access to all kinds of advanced
> functionality.
>
> Until I remembered the Alt+F2 shortcut I was very frustrated at needing to
> go through the menus and open a Gnome Terminal to have somewhere I could
> type xterm since it was not included in the menus.  (Strange as that may
> sound to use gnome terminal just to open xterm but back in the day Gnome
> terminal crashed once too many times and as a result I prefer to use
> xterm, but I prefer not to use the command line at all if an adequate
> graphical user interface exists).
>
> Given the various changes in layout of the menus and panels I have come to
> rely on the Run Dialog instead since I usually know the programs I want to
> run, and I do not always know the menu layout specific to a distribution.
>
> Also when it comes to fixing problems (on both Gnome and on Windows) it
> can cut out many steps to type the app/tool name in the dialog and just
> run it.  (Being able to cut several steps out of the process is especially
> useful when guiding an inexperienced user through the steps over the
> phone.)
>
--
Ritesh Khadgaray
LinuX N Stuff
Ph: +919822394463
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