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 <[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. > 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 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
