No "run" menu item?

[Cory K.]

Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
> 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

There's no reason we need to match features of other OS's bit for bit.

-Cory K.