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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/22/2011 08:46 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
> Den 22. sep. 2011 20:40, skrev Alex Launi:
> > Can someone explain why we think we want the ability to run rm 
> > directly from unity anyway? Is there a single person who wants this 
> > functionality who doesn't have a terminal open all of the time anyway?
> rm is a bad example. But being able to restart compiz using "compiz 
> --replace" without opening a terminal and running "nohup compiz 
> --replace" is a good reason to keep it around. Or to quickly open a 
> root nautilus. (Which itself is an example of situations when it 
> should not be necessary to run a command) Stuff like that.
Just for historic reference: The Alt-F2 mode in Unity was added because 
there was a *major* uproar from users that it was gone, when we 
transitioned from the Gnome2 panel. So we added it back.
Personally I don't get what people use it for instead of just having a 
full featured terminal around, but apparently it is very important to a 
lot of people. So I accept that :-)
Cheers,
Mikkel