[Keyboard improvements] Make better use of the Menu key.

Davor davor.buday at gmail.com
Mon Nov 21 23:03:26 UTC 2011


Good thinking.
Really forgotten key.

What about:
Menu+Right Ctrl - Opens kind of classic gnome menu - all applications in  
dash with filters {like in this picture   
http://www.ubuntuklub.com/images/stories/oneiric/oneiric_dash_app.png (is  
this possible?)}



Dana Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:48:19 +0100, Jo-Erlend Schinstad  
<joerlend.schinstad at gmail.com> napisao/napisala je:

> Considering last nights thread about keyboard use, I thought I'd start a 
> topic with ideas for keyboard improvements.
>
> This thread is about ideas for improving the utilization of the Menukey.  
> That's the one on the keyboard between Alt Gr and right ctrl, incase you  
> had forgotten the entire button. :) It currently has only onefunction;  
> to open a context menu within an app. This is very wasteful. Isuggest it  
> be used like this:
>
> * Pressing and releasing menu: same as now. Open apps context menu.
> * Shift+menu: replaces F10 and opens the first menu on the focused app's 
> menubar.
> * Menu+F-x: Open the menu for the Nth indicator.
> * Menu+num: Open the Nth launcher entry's quicklist.
> * Menu+envelope (email)-button: open the envelope (message) menu. That 
> makes sense, huh?
> * Menu+Esc: open the power cog menu.
> * Menu+print screen: open the Take Screenshot dialog.
>
> I'm sure there might be other useful shortcuts, like having a shortcutto  
> system preferences, which after, all can be considered a menu.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Jo-Erlend Schinstad
>


-- 
Davor Buday
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