GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 143236
"Run application" option from within system monitor
Last modified: 2017-05-22 17:11:20 UTC
In bug 130632, system monitor is going to be used for the CTRL+ALT+DEL keybinding. When nautilus crashes, sometimes this would be a useful place to start an application since "Run application" would not be available within the panel. To prevent this from being visible on normal invocations of system monitor, it could require a command-line option to show.
This doesn't make much sense to me. Why wouldn't "Run application" be available from within the panel? It's a dialog of the panel.
That doesn't do any good when you have nautilus and the panel. Windows also has a "Run" in the start menu, but they still added one to their system monitor for when explorer.exe is closed by the user. Same concept. This bug is an offshoot of bug 130632. Let's say the panel freezes, and you use system monitor to kill it. You need some way to start it again.
No, you don't need a manual way to start it again--gnome-session automatically restarts it.
I believe I have had cases where it hasn't restarted automatically. Anyway, if the gnome panel is frozen, you still might want to start an application without yet killing the panel. Another case this is useful is if you kill an application in system monitor, then want to immediately restart it. It'd be much more handy to simply click "Run application..." within system monitor.
Okay, I'm reopening.
I think this can be marked as obsolete due to systemd, automatic unit restarts, and other improvements since this has been reported. Marking this as OBSOLETE, feel free to reopen if you are still missing this. The only use-case mentioned above seems to be restarting an application after killing it, which might indeed be useful, but I would consider that a per-process action (e.g. checkbox on the kill confirmation dialog) rather than a generic Run application. Thanks for taking the time to report this.