[Bugs] #4703 Sugar UNSP: A quick way to open an activity

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#4703: A quick way to open an activity
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       Reporter:  martasd                    |       Owner:
           Type:  enhancement                |      Status:  new
       Priority:  Unspecified by Maintainer  |   Milestone:  Unspecified
      Component:  Sugar                      |     Version:  Unspecified
       Severity:  Unspecified                |    Keywords:
Distribution/OS:  OLPC                       |  Bug Status:  Unconfirmed
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 Currently, opening a new instance of an arbitrary activity involves the
 following steps:

 * Go to the List View
 * Press a key or use a mouse to focus the search bar
 * Type the name of the activity to launch
 * Click on the activity's icon once it appears

 It would be very useful to have a way to launch an activity in fewer
 steps. I suggest using the search button, which currently has the same
 purpose as the Journal button, to bring up a dialog where one can type in
 the name of the activity and launch it by pressing enter (an equivalent of
 how one can launch an application with Alt-F2 in GNU/Linux desktop
 distributions). This would be an improvement over the four-step process
 described above.
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Ticket URL: <http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/4703>
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