Re: panel run dialog

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Todd Kulesza <todd dropline net> writes:

> On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:45, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> 
> > I really wanted to add an option menu to this to act as a filter.  It
> > would let you select things like 'Games', 'Applications', 'All', etc.
> > This dialog certainly could use some help UI wse, but I don't think the
> > list of applications is inherently broken.
> > 
> 
> Wouldn't this make it act exactly the same as the current Applications
> Menu?  We already have an alphabetized list divided into categories such
> as Games, Accessories, etc. :)

I don't think it's terrible, because:

1) It's searchable

2) It would give people a chance to make the mapping between an
   application and it's command line/command line arguments

I think that we can fix the UI so it's nice without too much trouble.
Lets concentrate on that.

Thanks,
-Jonathan