2011/9/28 Ian Santopietro <isan...@gmail.com> > But Alt-F1 triggers keyboard navigation of the launcher, not the dash. You > can switch directlyfrom there to either dash or the Run dialog without any > other action. To open the dash, briefly press and release Super, which is a > very different shortcut from Alt-F2, and not likely to be confused. It is > true they look identical and serve very different functions, but be cause > they are each accessed so differently, it's unlikely that a user would open > one when they meant to open the other. > You are right, please replace all my "Alt-F1" references by "Super". That's what you get for writing without coffee in the morning.
As for it being unlikely, I'd argue that it isn't. There are many times where I hit Super only to decide I'd rather enter a command rather than launch an application. Right now it's impossible to mode-switch easily, because you have to close and reopen the Dash. This fells ugly. > And one might use "killall Thunderbird" to terminate Thunderbird if it > freezes. It was a rhetorical example, but the point is that sometimes it is > useful to run a command without opening a terminal, particularly if you > would then immediately close the terminal. > Indeed, which is why I use the Alt-F2 prompt. What I am arguing for is a way to access Alt-F2 functionality from the main Dash. Several ways were presented. My favourite so far: Enter key launches application (as now); Ctrl+Enter interprets the text as a command. Simple and intuitive.
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