GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315122
Provide standalone "run dialog" binary
Last modified: 2020-11-06 20:23:46 UTC
Distribution/Version: Ubuntu Breezy + Garnome The "Run application..." menu entry was removed from the menus, which is fine, but there should be at least the possibility to add it back using a custom .desktop file. This is not possible at the moment, because there is no way of calling the run dialog using the command line. It would be nice if you could ship a small binary, similar to "gnome-panel-screenshot", which just calls the dialog. I know about <alt>+<f2> and the run applet, but they are not the same...
Created attachment 52013 [details] small program that launches the run dialog I attached a small C source that will open the run dialog for you. Compile it with $ gcc gnome-run.c -o gnome-run -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
Might be an idea to include this with gnome-panel?
Won't do this before we branch and start hacking on 2.13.x
*** Bug 318623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Why not just place it in the Desktop menu? Thats where the "Take Screenshot" item is -- this is at least as important.
Gregoy: the "Take screenshot" item will go away too in the near future. But hopefully, you'll be able to add the items back if you want. If someone can make me have more hours in a day...
Vincent: I will be happy to send you some patches directly (based on current CVS) if you can provide me some high level detail on exactally what you want to do in order to add some additional flexibility in this area.
Gregory: the idea is, basically, to make the menu bar and main menu totally editable by the user. We just need to rewrite most of the code to do so :-)
Any progress on this? Not having a run entry is silly and there is no intuitive way of figuring out Alt+F2. This is one of the few areas you have to apologize for when recommending a GNOME desktop to someone.
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