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Bug 72600 - Run Program shouldn't list all installed programs
Run Program shouldn't list all installed programs
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: panel
1.5.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
: 75764 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-02-25 23:50 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2015-03-24 13:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-02-25 23:50:45 UTC 
The run program in the action menu seems to be based on the windows run
dialog. That said it seems weird that it lists all installed programs and
doesn't by default let users browse or run a program in a terminal ala
windows (you have to be in advance mode). This behavious is just odd. 

The run program shouldn't display all installed applications as these are
poorly organized and can be run directly from the applications menu in the
panel (why would u use the run program to run programs you can run from the
application menu). 

Instead it should simply prompt the user to enter the name of a program or
browse for a file. This behavior should not be advance, it should be normal.
Comment 1 Seth Nickell 2002-03-01 04:26:03 UTC 
I agree with this, but we'll have to fix it after 2.0
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-11 23:21:42 UTC 
Though I agree that this probably will have to wait, i wanted to
mention that this is a regression of sort from 1.4 which seems overall
correct in its functionality and appearance.
Comment 3 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-04-12 02:26:55 UTC 
*** Bug 75764 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 yminsky 2002-04-14 21:37:32 UTC 
Agreed.  The entire new run dialog is one big bug.  What the run
dialog should do is:


   1) start quickly
   2) allow for easy access to launching programs that you'd otherwise
need a shell to do.

The current implementation doesn't do either (1) or (2).  Doing (2)
properly would involve things like history, tab-completion, maybe
intelligent use of a file-browser.  The current implementation is
truly awful and hard to use.
Comment 5 Frank Worsley 2002-05-08 18:35:55 UTC 
You can now disable the program list if you want to. To do so change
this gconf value to FALSE:

/apps/panel/profiles/default/general/enable_program_list
Comment 6 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-05-09 05:55:33 UTC 
The current fix seems like reasonable comprimise to me closing as fixed.