No "run" menu item?

Przemysław Kulczycki przemekkulczycki at gmail.com
Fri Jul 4 21:55:34 UTC 2008


Mackenzie Morgan pisze:
> On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 23:21 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
>> Recently I've noticed that Ubuntu (or just Gnome) doesn't have a "run 
>> program" menu entry like in Windows' Start menu.
>> I don't think every user will magically know the alt+f2 shortcut.
>> I think this menu item should be added to the Applications menu, above 
>> or below Add/Remove menu item.
>> It's a pretty trivial task so I think it could be easily added in Intrepid.
> 
> There's a panel applet for it that you can add.

But that's not a solution. People migrating from Windows probably will 
expect to have such a feature in the menu, not somewhere else. And I 
don't think they would search for it in the applets.
There is a Gnome bug filed about it:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455537
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