Bad coding practices in Fedora packages

[Mathieu Bridon]

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 19:39 -0700, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael at gnat.ca> wrote:
> > On 01/03/2012 02:00 PM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
> >>
> >> I feel like I'm the only Fedora user on the planet who actually does
> >> like desktop search.  I love that I can press ALT+F2 and play a movie
> >> or e-mail somebody just as easily as I've always opened programs from
> >> there.  IMHO, it beats trawling through even the most well organized
> >> directory structure.
> >
> >
> > Are there docs somewhere that tell me I can do this via alt-f2? The only
> > thing I've ever used that for is to restart gnome-shell when the CPU hits
> > 100% for one reason or another... I'd like to see other uses but wasn't
> > aware of it other than to start apps...
> 
> I was talking about KDE's KRunner.  I'm pretty sure GNOME's ALT+F2
> just does applications.  But I've never used GNOME 3, so I could be
> wrong.
> 
> There are a number of applications that provide similar functionality
> on GNOME.  I think GNOME Do [1] ("gnome-do" in the repos) is the one I
> hear the most about.

On GNOME 3 (with GNOME Shell) you can do ALT+F1 and start typing.

The keyboard shortcut opens the overview and the search entry has the
focus by default, so you get the same result as with KRunner.

But it seems we are way off-topic now. :)


-- 
Mathieu