Katapult vs Alt+F2 (Was Re: Where is the KDE Control Center)

[Thomas Sperre]

On Monday 14 May 2007 21:40:00 Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> On Sunday 13 May 2007 12:42:40 Donn wrote:
> > > No.  I know it is installed on my system, but I haven't found even a
> > > mildly compelling reason to try it.  Convince me :-)
> >
> > I agree, it's no better than Alt-F2 anyway. Besides, I need Alt-Space in
> > apps like Blender and Inkscape and so on.
> >
> >
> > /d
>
> Katapult is one of the applications that I really miss when I have to go
> back to Windows.  I rarely use the K Menu or Alt+f2, I just use alt+space
> and then start typing. 

This is a very important discussion (TM) - but it is ok with my morning 
coffee :-) 

I have almost never used Alt+F2. Katapult is simply more user friendly, and a 
very efficient way of launching all kinds of stuff. As it works by 
association rather than strict path, I think it points forward to a 
more "human-like" way of doing things in a user interface. What I could see 
as an improvement is to get katapult working even more by association. A 
circle menu popping up, like when I type "media" I get choices for players, 
media creation programs,  stuff mounted to /media and media files located 
somewhere. If I know where I am going, I just start with "Kaf..." and launch 
right into Kaffeine, or "Manha..." for Manhattan Transfer and another pouring 
of Java Jive. 

Alt+F2 in my eyes, is just a cheap replacement for a shell run in a konsole 
window ;) which I almost always have open somewhere anyhow. I have configured 
F12 to launch konsole - that is at least one finger-move less than Alt+F2.

Alt+F2 loose, either way :P