On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 19:08, Frederik Nnaji <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 03:50, Tanner Doshier <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would definitely agree that Alt+F2 needs some attention and that >> Do-ifying it would be nice/useful. A lot of these ideas have already been >> thrown around though, see: > > > yeah, this is a very important topic for the overall usability of GNOME. > > GNOME Shell currently breaks the experience by zooming out while i only > want to overlay a utility for short while. > it breaks my focus of attention brutally, inspite of how beautiful Mutter's > costly animations slide and glide.. > i would either prefer all utilities to hide in dockable autohide panels, or > to raise them intelligently and context-aware upon ALT+F2 or even upon > Superkey. > > One thing i can say beforehand about how ALT+F2 currently behaves, is that > it does not indicate to me, whether an app i'm about to launch is already > open somewhere or not.. > indiating if the app is already running would be a simple overlay as in the > attached mockup. > it would also make "Run Application" consistent with > > David Siegel, the original GNOME Do author, said about Do-ifying the XFCE > Application Finder: > > It would be a great project to improve >> this dialog and merge it with the many different Open With... dialog >> implementations to introduce FAYT to users >> > > i think, "open with...", "send to...", "publish..."(new.. e.g. via Gwibber) > and "move to..." should be integrated, as well as FAYT functionality. > > Run Application deserves to be pimped, i agree with everyone.. >
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