opening a program with the middle button

Bug #48788 reported by David Prieto
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This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Panel
New
Wishlist
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

First thing I do when I switch on my laptop is open evolution to read my e-mails, liferea to get my news feeds and epiphany to browse some forums. Not necessarily when switching it on, but overall I usually run these programs together.

As of now, this requires too many clicks - I have to click applications, internet, evolution, applications, internet, liferea, applications, internet, epiphany.

It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea (middle-click), epiphany.

What do you think about it?

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

This'd be really useful! What a great idea!

Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Untriaged → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Revision history for this message
Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your report. While I can see this would do some good, I'd prefer to take the discussion to an upstream mailing list ( <email address hidden> ). We (as in the Ubuntu Desktop Team) are not likely to implement this and maintain the change over upstream. If somebody steps up to do it, that's fine, but I think it should be discussed upstream.

Changed in gnome-panel:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
Revision history for this message
Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've forwarded the issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345032

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → Wishlist
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