GNOME "Run" menu

[Rahul Sundaram]

Leon Stringer wrote:

>Is the "Run" menu item from GNOME deliberately missing or is this an
>oversight?
>
>  
>
It is deliberate. You can access the run dialog by use the shortcut 
(Alt+F2) which is faster.  You still have the panel applet. Right click 
panel to get the content menu => Click Add to panel =>  Click Run Dialog 
if you need a GUI way to do this. GNOME 2.14 which is planned to be 
included in FC5 will have a menu editor and there might have a gconf key 
to turn the menu entry back again. The idea behind this change to my 
understanding is to streamline the menus and make sure that any 
application that doesnt use the freedesktop desktop specification to 
automatically add menu entries on installation gets fixed.  The deskbar 
applet proposed for inclusion in GNOME 2.14 
(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/deskbar-applet-list/2005-October/msg00116.html 
) adds a enhanced replacement for the run dialog with provisions for 
keyboard shortcuts.  Also the context menu entry for the terminal in the 
desktop has also been removed. A replacement with additional 
functionality to open a terminal in any folder is available in Fedora 
Extras.

# yum install nautilus-open-terminal if you need it.

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Rahul 

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