Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
On 02/07/2012 06:50 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
The journal extension can be useful here
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/62/journal/
You can see a screenshot here
http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2011/10/gnome-shell-with-a-little-zeitgeist-exten...
You need zeitegist installed and running for this to work
https://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist
# yum install zeitgeist
Rahul
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:20:38PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
For any apps that use the recent docs integration bits, you can just type part of their name in the GNOME Shell overview and the document should appear as a result. I use this quite a bit myself.
On 02/07/2012 09:26 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:20:38PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
For any apps that use the recent docs integration bits, you can just type part of their name in the GNOME Shell overview and the document should appear as a result. I use this quite a bit myself.
Took me a bit of thought to figure out what you probably meant by 'GNOME Shell overview'. I guessed it was that box in the upper right what says search. And I typed in part of a document name not opened but did have opened a little while back and it worked, bringing up a 'recent' view showing this document as a calc doc. Clicking on it opened it. Kind of neat.
Only thing is this requires me to remember part of the file name. Well it IS a start. And it DOES go back further than the last 7 documents!
On 02/06/2012 09:07 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 02/07/2012 06:50 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
The journal extension can be useful here
Sounds interesting but it might be too much information.
I go to lots of web pages for recreation, like specturm.ieee.org, cnn.com, and enn.com along with my research on ietf.org and mentor.ieee.org (actually I have 53,000 docs from mentor scarfed on my system, but I don't have the title database, but most files are 'well named'. So I would want a journal that would separate 'fun' from 'work'. Or just stay with docs I had opened with LibreOffice, Acrobat reader and GEDIT. With Firefox, again it is a mix of fun reading and work docs...
Maybe I will still give it a try.
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/62/journal/
You can see a screenshot here
http://seilo.geekyogre.com/2011/10/gnome-shell-with-a-little-zeitgeist-exten...
You need zeitegist installed and running for this to work
https://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist
# yum install zeitgeist
Rahul
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:06:17AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 02/07/2012 09:26 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:20:38PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
For any apps that use the recent docs integration bits, you can just type part of their name in the GNOME Shell overview and the document should appear as a result. I use this quite a bit myself.
Took me a bit of thought to figure out what you probably meant by 'GNOME Shell overview'. I guessed it was that box in the upper right what says search. And I typed in part of a document name not opened but did have opened a little while back and it worked, bringing up a 'recent' view showing this document as a calc doc. Clicking on it opened it. Kind of neat.
[...snip...]
The overview is that "zoom out" mode that you can get by hitting the logo key on your keyboard, or Alt+F1, or hitting the upper left corner hotspot, or clicking on the Activities menu.
You can actually just start typing right away without clicking anything, and the search box is used by default. This is awesome both because it reduces the number of actions for everyone, and also because if you use the keyboard to switch to the overview already, you never need to move your hand to your other input device (mouse or trackball or what-have-you).
On 02/07/2012 11:01 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:06:17AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 02/07/2012 09:26 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:20:38PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
For any apps that use the recent docs integration bits, you can just type part of their name in the GNOME Shell overview and the document should appear as a result. I use this quite a bit myself.
Took me a bit of thought to figure out what you probably meant by 'GNOME Shell overview'. I guessed it was that box in the upper right what says search. And I typed in part of a document name not opened but did have opened a little while back and it worked, bringing up a 'recent' view showing this document as a calc doc. Clicking on it opened it. Kind of neat.
[...snip...]
The overview is that "zoom out" mode that you can get by hitting the logo key on your keyboard, or Alt+F1, or hitting the upper left corner hotspot, or clicking on the Activities menu.
Thanks for defining 'GNOME overview' for me. I missed that the logo key is equivalent to Alt+F1. I have noticed that my system switches to overview mode sometimes for no obvious reason....
You can actually just start typing right away without clicking anything, and the search box is used by default. This is awesome both because it reduces the number of actions for everyone, and also because if you use the keyboard to switch to the overview already, you never need to move your hand to your other input device (mouse or trackball or what-have-you).
Yes, truly awesome. Thanks for this tip.
Now if there is a keystroke to switch from 'windows' view to 'appllications' in the overview and then to select app submenus I would be even more thankful!
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 11:38:19AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 02/07/2012 11:01 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Tue, Feb 07, 2012 at 10:06:17AM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
On 02/07/2012 09:26 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 08:20:38PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Over the weekend,while traveling, I noticed that I did not know where 'Recent Documents' is now.
I would REALLY like a 'Recent Documents' feature....
For any apps that use the recent docs integration bits, you can just type part of their name in the GNOME Shell overview and the document should appear as a result. I use this quite a bit myself.
Took me a bit of thought to figure out what you probably meant by 'GNOME Shell overview'. I guessed it was that box in the upper right what says search. And I typed in part of a document name not opened but did have opened a little while back and it worked, bringing up a 'recent' view showing this document as a calc doc. Clicking on it opened it. Kind of neat.
[...snip...]
The overview is that "zoom out" mode that you can get by hitting the logo key on your keyboard, or Alt+F1, or hitting the upper left corner hotspot, or clicking on the Activities menu.
Thanks for defining 'GNOME overview' for me. I missed that the logo key is equivalent to Alt+F1. I have noticed that my system switches to overview mode sometimes for no obvious reason....
You can actually just start typing right away without clicking anything, and the search box is used by default. This is awesome both because it reduces the number of actions for everyone, and also because if you use the keyboard to switch to the overview already, you never need to move your hand to your other input device (mouse or trackball or what-have-you).
Yes, truly awesome. Thanks for this tip.
Now if there is a keystroke to switch from 'windows' view to 'appllications' in the overview and then to select app submenus I would be even more thankful!
Hang onto your hats... ;-) Once you're in the overview, you can hit Ctrl+Alt+Tab and cycle through choices to go to Applications! Once you're there you can hit arrows to move around, including to the submenus, which basically act like filters on the apps list. You can hit Enter to select an application, or a submenu filter from the list.
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