You are not supposed to use the Browse menu for launching imho, it is for discovery.
If an app is not in my favourites I usually launch it by typing the first three letters and pressing enter; the search box automatically has focus when you bring up the overlay. 2009/12/18 Thomas Wood <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2009-12-18 at 17:35 -0600, Ryan Peters wrote: > >> Hmm... how about the left side be an applications menu like before, >> but the top/bottom could maybe contain Recent Documents/Places? In all >> honesty I wouldn't mind the new application menu so much as long as I >> didn't have those dreaded pages... the menu's a little larger than it >> needs to be, too. >> >> Sorry if it sounds like I'm mad or trolling at all, I apologize. > > I think you've just highlighted the fact that the application menu > doesn't behave like an ordinary menu. Specifically, it doesn't open > sub-menus on hover. If it did, then opening an application would still > only require two clicks: > > * activate the overview from the top left corner > * click the "more applications" item (click one) > * hover the category you need > * click the application (click two) > > If you check the latest gnome-shell, you will notice that the categories > and pages of the applications menu are now in a single scrollable list, > although personally I think the menu and category based approach would > have worked better if the sub-menus had opened on hover. > > Regards, > > Thomas > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list > _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
