[ale] POSSIBLE-SPAM-Re: ranting about new Ubuntu UI

Michael Trausch mike at trausch.us
Thu Jun 23 17:58:18 EDT 2011


Compiz should support key bindings. Unity is a compiz plugin...

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On Jun 23, 2011 8:28 AM, "JD" <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> On 06/23/2011 07:22 AM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
>> Again, I'm speaking without using it. Have they not implemented a
>> shortcut for a quick search? Every app on my Mac is one key chord then a
>> few characters away. Having a permanent icon for anything is kind of
silly.
>>
>> We have 3TB drives and hundreds of thousands of apps at our disposal.
>> Traditional organization no longer applies and that its only going to
>> get worse in the future.
>>
>> It's not just people in third world countries that benefit from these
>> new UIs. It's my children. They shouldn't be burdened with some 50 year
>> old UI because it is what my Dad knew. Today's children are exposed to
>> touch UIs first. They are going to have the same vitriol for the
>> traditional UIs as what you are seeing here for the FIRST RELEASE of
>> Unity. It will get better.
>>
>
> I don't know of **any** X/Windows-based system that doesn't support
> keymapping. There are lots of ways to accomplish this and it is often
> part of the Window Manager. Unity supports it (somehow), openbox does
> it this way. Here are my favorites:
>
> <keybind key="C-A-t"> <!-- not all systems have a "windows" key -->
> <action name="execute">
> <command>xterm -sb -bg black -fg yellow</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
> <keybind key="W-t">
> <action name="execute">
> <command>xterm -sb -bg black -fg yellow</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
> <keybind key="W-1">
> <action name="execute">
> <command>firefox</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
> <keybind key="W-2">
> <action name="execute">
> <command>thunderbird</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
> <keybind key="W-3">
> <action name="execute">
> <command>keepassx</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
> <keybind key="W-c">
> <action name="execute">
> <command>gcalctool</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
> <keybind key="W-e">
> <action name="execute">
> <command>geany</command>
> </action>
> </keybind>
>
>
> They fit inside a
> <keyboard></keyboard>
> stanza in the ~/.config/openbox/whatever file. For LXDE, that file is
> ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml.
>
> Best of all, no desktop icons needed. By adding my .vimrc, my system
> feels like "my system." That pesky Unity behavior of bring the already
> running instance up when you want a new instance is fixed.
>
> OTOH, I can agree that a nice GUI to setup keybindings would be nice for
> noobs / anyone unwilling to edit a text file. I prefer editing a text
> file myself, but I hate the Windows registry and miss the old ini files
too.
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