[NCLUG] common tasks

[Bill Tucker]

* what about find a file?
* open mouse settings

* how can you do 'the set' of tasks using only the mouse?
* how can you do 'the set' of tasks using only the keyboard?

* how can you hide current window;  hide current app?

any other ideas?

-Bill

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 12:00 -0600, nclug-request at lists.nclug.org wrote:
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> Today's Topics:
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>    1. Re: Common tasks for desktop shootout next month? (Chad Perrin)
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> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:35:14 -0600
> From: Chad Perrin <perrin at apotheon.com>
> Subject: Re: [NCLUG] Common tasks for desktop shootout next month?
> To: Northern Colorado Linux Users Group <nclug at lists.nclug.org>
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> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 03:48:03AM -0600, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
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> > A few of us have decided to do a shootout between KDE, Unity, and a tiling
> > window manager for the presentation next month.  The selection here was
> > made simply based on attendees at the last meeting expressing willingness
> > to investigate and present on.
> > 
> > One of the items we discussed was that we needed to come up with a set of
> > common tasks to show off with the different environments.
> > 
> > So, any thoughts on that?
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> I'm not sure exactly what you want, but I'll make a guess and suggest:
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> * go from TTY or display manager interface to open http://eff.org in
>   Firefox in the shortest time
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> * set keyboard shortcuts to open five different programs
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> * arrange windows by five general task-types on five different workspaces
>   (or whatever is appropriately workspace-like for your GUI environment,
>   such as tags in wmii and virtual desktops in Enlightenment)
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> This assumes, of course, that:
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> * Firefox is already installed and, if necessary, display manager or
>   startx startup configuration (.xinitrc, for instance) is already set up
> 
> * all GUI environments "tested" either offer some mechanism for setting
>   keyboard shortcuts or are compatible with some separate piece of
>   software that offers that functionality -- but not that such a piece of
>   software is already installed if it is not part of a normal suite that
>   goes with the GUI environment in question
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> * all GUI environments support something like workspaces
>