Re: run dialog

[Jacob Berkman <jberkman andrew cmu edu>]

"Ben FrantzDale" <frantb@rpi.edu> writes:

> In windows, the "run" dialog (IMHO) is the most usefull "program". There's
> no quicker way to do many things than win+r (for example, to browse the C
> drive, it's just win+r, c:, enter. same thing for a web site (though it
> needs a leading http:// or www for it to see that it's a url)  also email is
> just mailto:user@domain.com you get the idea.
> 
> I've tried gnome's run dialog, but found it lacking
> First it start's unacceptably slowly. on my PII366 it's >1 second. Even on
> slow computers Windows' run pops up imedately (also, I think the way the
> windows keybord buffer works, you can start typing as soon as the program is
> opened, but before it has finished opening and the text ends up being
> entered anyway)

Have you tried the minicommander applet?

Jacob
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