Re: Command completer in runDialog

[Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan club fr>]

On ven., 2011-03-18 at 14:48 +0000, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote:
> I cannot say anything about "normal users" but I am expecting (i.e. what
> I do when I press Alt+F2) to have combination of overview and terminal -
> something like in Gnome 2, Gnome-do or quicksilver.
> 
>  - I'm expecting to be able to run normal commands like pkill java. it
> is important if:
>    a) Application does not have .desktop file
>    b) If it receive arguments not specified in .desktop file
>  - I'm expecting to be able to type description of program and get more
> or less auto-completed even if it does not match the exact command
I can see how this would be useful in this dialog, yes.

>  - I'd like to be able to search for recent documents. I always think
> that overview mode is distracting.
>  - I'd like to be able to do more advanced stuff like in quicksilver or
> gnome-do. Say find a document I was recently working on (say odf or
> LaTeX document) and do some work on it (say convert it to pdf and attach
> to current e-mail).
IMHO, and I think it's how it was designed, this kind of more complex
feature should be in the overview, maybe as an extension. Definitely not
in the Alt+F2 dialog. The overview shouldn't considered be
"distracting": it's the main area to run actions from the Shell. And
it's already where you can find your recent documents (provided your
system apps are built with GTK3).

Cheers