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[Petko <pditchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ok , I want to wrap things a little : the gnome "Run" has its user base 
, as long as it has it - the app will be available (and since I don't 
expect GNOME will substitute it - it will stay) . There were thoughts on 
some other discussion that Ubuntu won't have it as a default shortcut 
any more , I'm not sure where that was , why , or anything else , but it 
doesn't even matter for this discussion .

 The question is - how can running commands be implemented in the dash ?

Proposal 1 : type the command itself : could cause much damage on 
accident , and is hard to implement (in terms of search/execute logic) . 
Also Ians last message was pretty clear about auto-completion .
Proposal 2 : type "run:" to run a command . I agree that such 
functionality isn't that useful , but it's not a bad way of putting 
things in one place - it's not worse than opening the terminal manually 
or using the gnome run app , so I'd be happy to see it implemented and 
use it .

Sadly I think the conversation is pointless - the dash is pointed at 
normal user tasks and can not include advanced functionality for the 
command line (as in auto completion or whatever else pleasantness there 
might be) . If it includes command execution it would be in a way that 
the normal user won't be able to encounter it , and it won't be 
including any special features . And that , even if I think is something 
very logical to have (as everybody is supposed to imagine the dash as 
omnipotent) , is not a priority in any way for the developers .

Petko