GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169976
Please use command line completion in "run application" dialog
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:14:38 UTC
On old pre 2.10 Gnome you can run a program from the action menu. You do that by specifying the name of the program in a text field. (The function is still there in Gnome 2.10, but the menu is called something different) The improvement I would like to suggest is that it was possible to have tab-completion from all applications in the current path. If more than one program matched a combobox list should pop up with all available choises. That way the burden of remembering the exact spelling of program names would be reduce. This is important as this possiblity to run programs often are used for programs that are not that frequently used. Other information:
"If more than one program matched a combobox list should pop up with all available choises. That way the burden of remembering the exact spelling of program names would be reduce." I agrree
So your proposal is to have combobox-style completion rather than selected-text style completion? Can you point to a few gnome/kde applications which have this behavior, so we have something to model it on? Do you mean something like the location input box of the file-open dialog? Is there a standard widget for input-dialog-with-completion that we can use, or should we just copy-paste code?
see also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580593
Have a look at this software: http://www.launchy.net/ It runs both on windows and linux. there is already prebuild .deb packages. Try using it and compare then with gnome action menu. GnomeDo is also a nice thing: http://do.davebsd.com/ By the way, the ticket is already 4 years old. I think it will be much quicker for users to install launchy or gnome do and just do not use gnome run application dialog. :)
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