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Only for people who memorize application names. I bet you feel fine in front of a CLI, too. (Not a knock against, I like Launchy as well.) Do some time as a te
by sudont 16y ago
Only for people who memorize application names. I bet you feel fine in front of a CLI, too. (Not a knock against, I like Launchy as well.)
Do some time as a tech support, and eventually you'll get a request to help them with "this application, you know, the blue one. With the pictures and stuff?"
- StavrosK 16y agoThat's true, but are these people likely to have so many programs in the start menu anyway?
- sudont 16y agoI may be tainted by academia: IT loaded computers with about 150 applications keyserve'd.
- StavrosK 16y agoSurely academics don't look for the "orange curvy thing" instead of MATLAB, though.
- sudont 16y agoAnybody in the hard sciences was pretty competent, except for a couple of HTML-related issues. Fine arts, education, sociology, and just students in general, however... And I say that with an art degree, too.
- viraptor 16y agoNot sure about lunchy, but since it's similar to gnome-do and others - doesn't it search on descriptions or custom aliases too? I never type "thunderbird" for example - it's always "mail" ("ma" actually), or whatever word I associate with the app (this has the added bonus of allowing me to open company's crm via "crap"...)