Bug 179089 – The Applications menu does not have the "Run Application..." item

Bug 179089 - The Applications menu does not have the "Run Application..." item

Summary:	The Applications menu does not have the "Run Application..." item

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	gnome-panel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	powerpc Linux

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Assigned To:	Ray Strode [halfline]
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Reported:	2006-01-27 06:06 EST by Richard Hughes
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2006-01-27 10:19:06 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
GNOME Desktop	167090	None	None	None	Never

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Description Richard Hughes 2006-01-27 06:06:22 EST

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Description of problem:
To do development work, I often use the Applications->Run Application menu item, which I cannot find installing yesterdays rawhide on my iBook.

It appears to me missing.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-panel-2.13.5-2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install rawhide
2. Click the menu "Applications"
3. Be surprised "Run Application" has vanished
  

Additional info:

Comment 1 Frank Arnold 2006-01-27 10:08:43 EST

IIRC there was some discussion about that after GNOME 2.12 release. Basically,
Alt + F2 does what you want.

Comment 2 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-01-27 10:19:06 EST

Hi Richard,

Frank is right, this was intentionally removed.  Bryan Clark instigated the
change. To quote,

"However it is ugly.  Really ugly.  It's not just a wart, but
a wart on the tip of our nose the size of our eye."

See, http://mail.gnome.org/archives/release-team/2005-February/msg00078.html

and gnome bug #167090 for details.

Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2006-01-31 04:22:08 EST

Thanks Ray, although I say I don't agree with that decision. The user (like me,
hardly a newbie!) has to find out from google that [Alt + F2] works as required,
and remember it. Should this be in the release notes or something?

Comment 4 Ray Strode [halfline] 2006-01-31 10:53:13 EST

Hi Richard,

The change is one of the controversial sort, I think.  It's definitely not
something we'd diverge from upstream on though.

It's probably not worth adding to the release notes.

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