RE: [gnome-love] Task manager for GNOME

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Alan Horkan [mailto:horkana maths tcd ie] 
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
>
> > Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 12:13:17 +0200
> > From: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
> > To: news optimistic co uk
> > Cc: gnome-love gnome org
> > Subject: Re: [gnome-love] Task manager for GNOME
> >
> > On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:33, news optimistic co uk wrote: > Hi
> > everyone - it just occurred to me that I do not know of a feature in
> > or a project for GNOME like the Windows task manager. By the task
> > manager, I mean the thing that pops up when you press ctrl+alt+del
> > under Windows and click the 'task manager' button. It may be that
> > GNOME has this feature but I haven't found it yet, or there may
> > already be a project for it, but either way I would be interested to
> > know. > there is gnome-system-monitor
>
> For the benefit of experienced Microsoft Windows users and help them
> discover things more easily has the idea of putting links in the Run
> Dialog for things like "taskman" been considered?  (Heresy, I know but
> old habits are hard to break).
>
> I have not yet got the hang of how best to guess gnome-program-name ;)
>
> Do any of the more Microsoft targeted distributions do 
> anything like this?
> I'll admit I have typed notepad more than once when I actually wanted
> gedit (or something similar).  I typed ssh in the run dialog 
> to see what
> would happen but it seemed to open then close a terminal window really
> quickly.

Erm, this is why we have an applications menu.

Murray Cumming
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