Re: panel run dialog

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

There is a recent list, in advance click on the down arrow, list all
recently ran apps from the run dialog.

dave

On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:01, Raphael Bosshard wrote:
> 
> What about a short "recent" list? Most people don't use hundreds of
> several applications but the same few ever and ever again.
> My confuse self uses the mini_commander for the programms that:
> a) I use often,
> b) but not often enogh to give them an icon on the panel
> 
> Raphael
> 
> 
> Am Mon, 2002-04-15 um 14.47 schrieb Dave Bordoley:
> > Well being the reporter of that bug i'll add some comments as to why
> > listing all the installed programs is a bad idea.
> > 
> > 1. They are unorganized.
> > 2. The applications menu is where programs should be launched from
> > 3. The right click menu of each application in the applications menu
> > give the user the option to put it in the run dialog.
> > 4. The most important feature of the run dialog is considered advance.
> > (aka browsing the file system for a binary, or running a command line
> > program from the dialog in a terminal).
> > 
> > from my perspective if the run dialog is not used in advance mode, it's
> > pretty much useless.
> > 
> > 
> > dave
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 08:35, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 	I'm getting quite a few comments that the list of applications
> > > in the run dialog isn't useful and just slows down the dialog e.g.
> > > 
> > > 	http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72600
> > > 
> > > 	So I'd like to hear comments from a wider audience. Also, what
> > > do the usability team think ?
> > > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > Mark.
> > > 
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