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Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance

Posted Aug 24, 2011 19:45 UTC (Wed) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285)
In reply to: Gnome Shell pain and Gnome 2 deliverance by sjj
Parent article: Announcing the release of Fedora 16 Alpha

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.

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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. :-)