Re: Gnome menu

[Jason White <jason jasonjgw net>]

meg ford <meg387 gmail com> wrote:
> Here is the documentation for the keyboard shortcuts for navigating the
> applications icons [1], although I I think that asking a person with a
> physical disability to hold down ctrl and alt while tabbing is
> not feasible. Maybe someone else knows of a better solution.

You can use cursor keys to navigate through the list of applications from the
activities overview, which is very slow, or speed it up by typing the first
several characters of the name to move quickly through the list to
applications with names that start with those characters.

If you're in the dash, typing text will search the entire list of applications
instead of restricting itself to those in the dash. I personally don't like
this design decision. There was a similar design choice reported on LWN which
is said to have recently been added to Nautilus: by typing characters one
searches the current directory and all subdirectories for matches instead of
just moving the selection to matching entries in the current directory. This
design decision attracted critics, so I am not alone in thinking that if I
used a file manager (which I don't), moving the selection quickly to an item
in the current directory is what I would want to do more often than searching
a directory and all of its subdirectories for a name.

Note: the above is based on reports that I read at LWN; I'm not taking
responsibility for any inaccuracies.