On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Domingo Becker <domingobecker(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The shortest way is by using keyboard, as Rahul says:
1. Press the key between Ctrl and Alt.
2. Type in what you search, at least the first letters. After that,
some icons are shown and you may use up and down arrow keys to select.
3. After selecting the application you want, press Enter, and that's it.
Agreed - it is a bit odd, but I am getting used to it, and as your
users report, it's fast and practical. And I have a use for the damn
'windows' key! (Alt-F2 is the alternative for un-branded keyboards).
And ctrl-tab + ctrl-~ is an excellent timesaver. Got used to it on the
mac, and I think KDE had it but if Gnome had it I never found it.
It's a new UI -- we all have things we're used to so it is easy to
focus on a change you dislike. But overall, if you try to play the
game it proposes it is good.
It does have issues though
- bring back poweroff ;-)
- applications browsing can be improved -- the scrollbar is too thin
and subtle, icons miss tooltips...
- various oddities with dual-head setup vs...
- the hot-corner - sometimes it's between your monitors!
- the hot-topbar - vertically "stacked" monitors are unusable
my 2c
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