Run Application does not have proper file name completion
Bug #550774 reported by
Mikael Ståldal
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GNOME Panel |
New
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Wishlist
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| gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The "Run Application" (Alt-F2) dialog in GNOME does not have proper support for file name completion.
If you want to run a file in some directory, you enter the directory name and then you are stuck unless you know the first character of the file name. Even if there is only one file in the directory, you need to supply the first character of the file name to proceed.
And if the directory contains more than one file with the same file name prefix, you need to enter an unique prefix to proceed.
It should be possible to get a list of files matching a given prefix (or all files in the directory if no prefix is given). It should provide the same functionality as TAB completion in the shell (but not necessary using the TAB key).
(Ubuntu 9.10.)
| tags: | added: wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | ubuntu → gnome-panel (Ubuntu) |
Revision history for this message
| Mikael Ståldal (mikaelstaldal) wrote | #2 |
Revision history for this message
| Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in gnome-panel (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in gnome-panel: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Wishlist |
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I think the Run Application dialog is provided directly by the panel. What you're describing sounds like gmrun [1], which is available in the archive.
[1] http://