On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Ritesh Khadgaray wrote: > Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 07:05:06 +0530 > From: Ritesh Khadgaray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Alan Horkan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: [email protected] > > > 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. 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.) -- Alan _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
