7:20 p.m.
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....
9:06 a.m.
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!
10:38 a.m.
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!
10:01 a.m.
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).
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9:12 a.m.
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-ex...
You need zeitegist installed and running for this to work
https://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist
# yum install zeitgeist
Rahul
8:26 a.m.
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.
--
Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/
gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717
http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/
The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com
8:07 p.m.
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-ex...
You need zeitegist installed and running for this to work
https://live.gnome.org/Zeitgeist
# yum install zeitgeist
Rahul
2:55 p.m.
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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