Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Florian Max
2011/9/4 Jasper St. Pierre > Have you seen "Killing Mode Switch"[0]? It wasn't implemented in 3.2 > because of time constraints, but it's planned. > The more important reason for not doing it in the 3.2 time frame was that the design is unfinished (quote Jakub: "don't work on that yet"), but yea

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Xavier Cho
Seems awesome! It's definately an improvement over the current way of adding dock bar shortcuts. And it looks great too :) Still I like to navigate through application categories without moving my mouse from corner to corner or click multiple times to find the right application. Maybe we need all

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
Have you seen "Killing Mode Switch"[0]? It wasn't implemented in 3.2 because of time constraints, but it's planned. http://jimmac.musichall.cz/log/?p=1181 On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Xavier Cho wrote: > Ok, I can admit the overview mode is somewhat more user friendly than > alt-f2. But stil

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Xavier Cho
Ok, I can admit the overview mode is somewhat more user friendly than alt-f2. But still, demanding users to use their keyboard to perform such basic task as launching an application is not the way to achieve user friendliness. To be more precise, I suppose all those methods of launching applicatio

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Jasper St. Pierre
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Xavier Cho wrote: > Thanks for the tip. Though, I already know how to use dash. > > I guess dash/dock is mainly for the applications which used most often, > and categorised application menu is for those applications which is only > occasionally accessed. And even I

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Xavier Cho wrote: > In that case, we can just remove the application menu altogether and let > them alt-f2 type commands to launch applications. Thats not the same thing at all. In case of alt-f2, user has to know the exact and complete name of the application. W

Re: Launching an application requires too many mouse clicks in Gnome 3

2011-09-04 Thread Andy Wingo
On Sun 04 Sep 2011 08:31, Xavier Cho writes: > On a side note, I really like to see kind of a 'switchable' dock so I > could change set of applications on it according to task currently I'm > on. For example, when I do some music related work, I often use jackd > related applications like ardour,

Question on the org.gnome.panel(.applet) prefix in applet plumbing

2011-09-04 Thread Marcin Owsiany
[posting here, since gnome-utils-list seems inactive] Hello, I'm porting my little "command runner" Python applet (https://github.com/porridge/command-runner-applet) to GTK+3 and libpanel-applet-4 with D-Bus activation. I've read http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/AppletsDbusMigration and had a lo