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Bug 633671 - Staying In the Activities Area When Launching Applications
Staying In the Activities Area When Launching Applications
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 622700
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
: 649845 671167 683549 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-01 03:19 UTC by Jon Kristensen
Modified: 2012-09-07 06:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Make shift-click activate app but remain in activities overview (2.30 KB, patch)
2011-06-24 13:25 UTC, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 		needs-work Details | Review

Description Jon Kristensen 2010-11-01 03:19:10 UTC 
When first starting my computer I usually want to start a number of applications that I do not want to autostart. So what I do is that I type "firefox" and press Enter, press the system key to get back to the activities area, type something else and press Enter, etc, etc, etc.

Instead, I would like to be able to press Ctrl+Enter when executing the command and not have the activities area close. That way, I could launch everything I want without leaving the activities area.

It's only when you press enter or click the mouse and not holding down Ctrl that the activities area will close.

Also, I was thinking that the middle mouse button could be used as an alternative way for clicking on an icon and not have the activities area close.

Users could be made aware of this feature by hovering over the Find box.
Comment 1 Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy 2011-06-24 13:25:12 UTC 
Created attachment 190583 [details] [review]
Make shift-click activate app but remain in activities overview

I like the idea, but I focus on mouse. Ctrl is currently taken for opening a new window, so I use Shift as the "stay in activities overview" modifer. This patch makes it works both in the dash and app view, also when launching in new workspace.

I guess somebody could take another step and make Shift-Enter work too.
Comment 2 Florian Müllner 2011-06-24 13:43:40 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=190583) [details] [review]
> Make shift-click activate app but remain in activities overview

There's already a patch for that in bug 649845.
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2011-08-03 14:18:50 UTC 
*** Bug 649845 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Dan Winship 2011-08-03 14:20:55 UTC 
Comment on attachment 190583 [details] [review]
Make shift-click activate app but remain in activities overview

This is not currently part of the design, and we have been reluctant to accept "put useful feature that I want on [Random modifier key]+[Random button click]" patches in the past.

Marking needs-work to get off the patch review queue. If the designers decide we want this, then the patch could be reviewed then.
Comment 5 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-03-02 09:04:18 UTC 
*** Bug 671167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Milan Bouchet-Valat 2012-03-02 09:05:35 UTC 
Designers? Sounds a useful behavior, though it would be more consistent with Web browsers tabs to use Ctrl+click for this.
Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2012-03-02 09:43:37 UTC 
I have a feeling that the designers' preferred solution is outlined in bug 622700 (which certainly sounds a lot less random to me, though it has its own downsides) ...
Comment 8 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2012-05-21 23:23:33 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 622700 ***
Comment 9 Florian Müllner 2012-09-07 06:44:49 UTC 
*** Bug 683549 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***