GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 648507
Use the Logo key more
Last modified: 2012-10-30 15:52:41 UTC
Gnome-shell gives a lot of protagonism to the Logo key, to the point that it's the main way to start any interaction from the keyboard. I have noticed that the Activities overlay doesn't start right away when you press Logo, but when you release it. This is, presumably, to allow keyboard combinations. However, there don't seem to be any active keyboard combinations so far. Here are some combinations that could be useful: Logo + up / down → change workspace Shift + logo + up / down → charge workspace moving current window Logo + number → move to the workspace with that number Logo + left / right → application switcher, then up / down → switch between application switcher and window switcher
Might be related to bug #617232. We could press Logo plus other key to show the message tray, then release to hide it again.
We could also press Logo plus other key to open the Activities overlay in specific tabs, e.g. Applications or any of the other tabs to come, like Places or People.
More shortcuts with the logo key would make sense. I'd add Logo+mouse scrollwheel to change workspace.
That is a good idea. It would really make sense to use key combinations with logo/super for shell related actions. Besides, right now I can't use this key in any custom shortcuts, so it's a waste.
Yes, Logo+{something} to go to Applications view would be fantastic. Perhaps Logo+F2. It's similar to Alt+F2 which many users are already comfortable with for launching apps. Also, how about Logo+~ to open a quake-style console for the desktop.
Super+{number} should activate the {n}th application in the app well, like it does in Ubuntu and Windows 7.
(In reply to comment #6) > Super+{number} should activate the {n}th application in the app well, like it > does in Ubuntu and Windows 7. Super+{number} is my custom shortcut to switch to the {n}th workspace. Though, I like the way ubuntu behaves on super press (dash slides from the left screen edge and after a sec appears numbers on dash icons giving you a hint which icon is which number). I would rather use letters (beginning of app name) instead of numbers. I know there can be more apps with the same beginning letter. This can resolved with fist unused letter instead of the first. Moreover, it must be done the way, that user knows mechanism of letter selection. This way could be handled not only keyboard accessibility of dash items, but message tray and panel items, too. Because navigating panel items with arrow keys is slow and annoying. My desired behavior is: when super is pressed dash slides from the left, workspace view slides from the right, message tray slides from the bottom, at the top is the panel. Now all four screen edges are used by some keyboard navigable staff. Maybe there should be used Alt/Ctrl in addition to Super for accessing panel/messageTray. Note that if no other key is pressed, on super release overview (which has most of its elements already in place) is shown. Actually, I was trying to make an extension for this, but I failed to find how key-press-event capturing works. (probably because I'm not much experienced with coding)
Hi, Most of this is already done. Logo+up/left/right/down, logo+M, etc. The rest is pretty much out of scope or would be better suited as extensions.