GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 75764
run dialog without program list (like old grun)
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:35 UTC
Package: gnome-panel Severity: enhancement Version: 1.5.14 Synopsis: run dialog without program list (like old grun) Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel Bugzilla-Component: Panel Description: now gnome-panel's run dialog has list of programs reserved. I think this is waste of time to open dialog. I never use this list. so, I ask you to disable the list pane, like old grun did. the way to switch the three option of: list, command, both, will be the GtkOptionMenu on place of "Advanced" button. what do you think of this? ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2002-03-21 11:11 ------- Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Okay, this is a usability related enhancement ... Calum, Seth, do you have similar issues with the gnome-run dialog?
I would agree that the list takes up space in "Advanced" mode that advanced users probably don't want/need. Perhaps making the list disappear when you selected 'advanced' mode would help here, although then you'd lose the nice feature of being able to select an app from the list and see its command appear in the text field below. But IMHO I'm not convinced that it's a big enough problem to make it worth complicating the dialog by replacing the "Advanced>>" button with an option menu. If and when we have a standard disclosure triangle widget, though, we could have one to show/hide the list part of the dialog and one to show/hide the Advanced part, which might be nicer. Anyone else got a view on this one?
Nils and I talked about this a few months ago and agreed the list was pretty much superflous and got in the way of what people really wanted to do (which is type in a command). One option, assuming there are people who actually use the list functionality, would be to make this a tabbed dialogue, and have it remember which tab you were last in. So it would have the "type a command" options, and then a list tab.
Is anyone but a user wanting to type commands going to land in this dialogue though? This list just mirrors the applications menu, but without structure. I guess I just don't see the use-case for this "feature".
Yeah, I thought about the two tabs option before I wrote my original comment, too, but that precludes the ability to select an application from the list and have its binary name pop up in the command line text field for the addition of arguments etc.-- a feature which I'll probably use less over time, but I've found it quite handy since all the binary changed in 2.0 :)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 72600 ***