http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Tue, 02-Dec-2008 00:00:00 UTC Tue, 02-Dec-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10748/ Alt+f2 run dialog is hardcoded into gnome-panel. There is no way to create a menu item for it. There are many independent implementations of it: grun, gmrun, gnome-run-dialog, gnome-panel-tool. It proves that people still need it.

Also lots of people ask for it:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/167129
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=68031
http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/post/152
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=76150
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=506489
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=91454
http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/32956
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/66659-run-command-gnome-desktop.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=593846
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=88695
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512290
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=65850

Removing this dialog from the menu was a stab to discoverability, and usability. Users shouldn't be required to know any cryptic spells like alt+f2 or nohup to run a single command which isn't available from the menu, without having to open a terminal window. Most often they don't even know what a terminal is. They just want to run a program by it's binary name.

When Gnome devs removed the run dialog from the menu they should have left a possibility to bring it back at will. But they didn't. They left no choice to users and distro creators.

Also see the Gnome bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455537

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