Ps. That's annoying that the reply address has to be manually changed to the mailing list address.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Gino Vincenzini < openmysourcec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Might I submit for your reading: > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Sheets/Sheets.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000002-BABFIBIA > I'm sick of people criticizing any software for copying even one feature > from the same company whose leader is quoted as saying that shamelessly > their company steals ideas (Apple: Steve Jobs). It's one thing when it's > windows vista and every single one of their new features can be traced back > to apple and Mac OS X, but let's not forget that the GUI on the original Mac > OS came from none other than Xerox (granted Mac OS X compensated Xerox in > stock, we are writing an open source system) If an idea is good, let's take > it and march forward, I would love to see an easy to access run box, which > expands like a sheet into a terminal window... let's make the window > detachable, add a checkbox called "watch" which repeatedly runs the command > and shows the watch output in that window.... let's make simple things > simple and out of the way, and bigger more complicated things possible > (Thanks apple :D ). > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Naba Kumar <naba.ku...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 like 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 >> > >
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