GNOME 3.6 released [LWN.net]

GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Oct 1, 2012 14:21 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: GNOME 3.6 released by sjj
Parent article: GNOME 3.6 released

Long ago I began launching apps from my terminal. The number of launcher docks I used shrank quickly to zero and I've never looked back. On Linux I've bound my favorite terminal to ALT+SHIFT+t and have a trivial shell script

#!/usr/bin/env bash
"$1" 2>/dev/null &1>2 & disown $!

which I invoke to launch my graphical programs. Launcher programs are overrated; my launcher panel is as long as my memory and the time it takes to find any item is a function of the length of its name (or faster, if it tab completes quickly). I expect most people (where people != users) will prefer this sort of thing once they get used to it.

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