Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamst...@canonical.com> wrote: > > On 09/22/2011 08:46 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote: >> >> Den 22. sep. 2011 20:40, skrev Alex Launi: >>> >>> Can someone explain why we think we want the ability to run rm directly >>> from unity anyway? Is there a single person who wants this functionality >>> who doesn't have a terminal open all of the time anyway? >> >> rm is a bad example. But being able to restart compiz using "compiz >> --replace" without opening a terminal and running "nohup compiz --replace" >> is a good reason to keep it around. Or to quickly open a root nautilus. >> (Which itself is an example of situations when it should not be necessary to >> run a command) Stuff like that. > > Just for historic reference: The Alt-F2 mode in Unity was added because there > was a *major* uproar from users that it was gone, when we transitioned from > the Gnome2 panel. So we added it back. > My original thought was about having the two be approached consistently. The functionality of Alt-F2 is still useful, especially when taking command parameters, like others have pointed. Even without them, at least out of habit :).
Approaching the two by the user consistently, meaning not to think what to use when launching "text editor", "gedit", "gedit ~/file.txt", "gedit -s". All 4 is used to launch a text editor in varying ways, but first 2 work with dash-search and last 3 work with current alt-f2 implementation. One can divide the launches between "standard" vs "advanced" ways and have 2 separate interfaces dealing with them - which is what is done currently and is what others have pointed out. But what is there to lose if the two are done through same interface - without any lose of functionality of either? Some subtle difference between the two can be brought in, such as likeĀ joerlend suggested with "~". Or, having no difference in the input, but instead additional command-prefix completion is shown below (lens?) in addition to the free text search results - such that input is both treated as case insensitive free form search + case sensitive command pre-fix search. This will save some metal taxing on the users (note: it wasn't difficult to pick before because I only had to choose alt-f2). Thanks. Regards, -Naba _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp