fiw, that´s how it works in Unity... Love Unity now... (12.04+) tap super, and type in the the command, with auto-complete. Alt-F to get the menu... less mousing around. With the new key bindings it is actually quite slick.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:12 PM, Aaron Doucette <[email protected]>wrote: > Super-key, start typing the app name, hit enter. No mouse required. > > > But when I want to start a program that is not in the favorite bar, I > have to click on Application, then on the filter (example Program), and > then from the displayed icons, chose my program. >> >> >> With G2, I click on menu, which opens in a flash, slide down to the >> program menu-item, across to the entry and click. These actities take much >> much less time than vanilla Gnome 3 >> >> I installed the tweaks for G3, and was able to have some shortcuts on the >> favorites bar. Still, when you move around the system a lot, G3 and also >> Unity are the pits. >> >> I used xfce, but then had to switch back to G3 to get certain updates >> installed, and back again. >> >> My concern is more with UEFI which is coming soon. I bet you that UEFI >> will be hacked before Microsoft gets the W8 software out to the public. >> And perhaps that hack will help Linux users too. >> >> If the certificate authorities can be hacked, then nothing is safe. And >> that is where I see the hackers concentrating their efforts. >> >> >> >> *------------------ >> >> * >> Regards >> * >> Leslie >> * >> *Mr. Leslie Satenstein >> *50 years in Information Technology and going strong. >> Yesterday was a good day, today is a better day, >> and tomorrow will be even better. >> >> mailto:[email protected] <[email protected]> >> alternative: [email protected] >> www.itbms.biz >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* Aaron Doucette <[email protected]> >> *To:* Montreal Linux Users Group <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Thursday, June 7, 2012 1:28 PM >> *Subject:* Re: [MLUG] Back to Gnome 2 >> >> XFCE is nice and similar to Gnome 2.x in both looks and performance. >> >> Speed is relative to the machine. I have no issues with the Gnome3 >> interface on my machine, aside from a few functionality annoyances. >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Nick Sklav <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 13:19 -0700, Leslie S Satenstein wrote: >> > For years my favorite distribution was Fedora, seconded by Ubuntu. >> > >> > Now, I got fed up with the favorites bar, got fed up with Cinamon and >> > Linux Mint 13 (mind you it was better human interface than the two) >> > and went back to Debian with the laptop option. >> > >> > I guess since we spend so much time with the latest Gnome or Unity >> > release, that we fail to realize how bad they are. Debian gui >> > interface flies. Click, and the display is immediately updated. >> > Try that with the three I mentioned. >> > >> > Boot times also seems more quick. >> >> The only issue i see and trust me it is on the horizon. is what happens >> when wheezy comes out aka the next debian stable and your forced onto >> gnome3 anyways. >> >> I too run debian and am using gnome2 but i will not fight the change >> that is coming. The only thing left is someone continues patching gnome >> 2.3x and adding features but it seems so far that nobody is up to the >> task. >> >> The distro's themselves just repackage the upstream product and so that >> means no more gnome2 since upstream has next to dropped it. >> >> I remember when gnome first came out and everyone including me hated it >> and preferred kde . >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> mlug mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > >
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