Another Fedora 16 + Gnome 3.2 question!?

Alan Evans ame.fedora at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 15:16:09 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Olav Vitters wrote:

>> And what, pray tell, does 'r' do?
>
> restart gnome-shell (keeps existing applications; state is not perfectly
> preserved). Quicker than rebooting the entire machine just to see the
> changes you made to gnome-shell.

A *one* *letter* command to restart the shell?!? That seems like a
horrible mis-feature, like something I might key in accidentally.

Did developers really think that restarting GNOME-shell would be so
common that it justified a single char shortcut?

-Alan


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