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Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance

Posted Aug 24, 2011 18:07 UTC (Wed) by sjj (subscriber, #2020)
In reply to: Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance by zlynx
Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha

I'm afraid that kind of useful functionality is confusing to the mythical Gnome target user who powered on his or her brand new computer for the first time ever today.

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Posted Aug 24, 2011 19:45 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

Is that kind of Gnome user likely to be using Alt-F2? It's like the Windows user who uses Win+R. Users of Win+R are either advanced users or they are copypasting from a web page.

alt+f2

Posted Aug 24, 2011 20:52 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285) [Link]

That's exactly right; alt+f2 is quite explicitly a power user feature and I'm sure stuffing more power-user-y features into it would be quite welcome. (Unlike, say, alt+f1.)

On the other hand, it's a low priority. I'm sure they're taking patches, though. :)

alt+f2

Posted Aug 24, 2011 20:59 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

I don't know if I'll have time to learn Gnome internals and write a feature for it because I signed up for the free on-line Stanford Introduction to AI class.

Maybe I'll learn how to write a program to write programs for me. :-)