Bug 105687

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
OS:                FreeBSD

hi, i have just read this report:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90588

which is a similar issue, but i would prefer a mode called 'standard command line' or something that behaved in exactly the same way as auto-completion in a terminal window, ie. the first word is assumed to be a program on the path, so the drop down list supplies a list of all programs starting with that pattern, and anything after the first space is assumed to be a file taken as an argument. for instance, if i want to view a PDF document somewhere on my machine, i find it easier to type something like:

Alt-F2
gv /usr/home/iain/somedoc.pdf
enter

which then opens the document i want to view, rather than typing:

Alt-F2
gv
select open
find my file using the browser tool
click open

but with the auto completion options available in the Alt-F2 feature, it treats the program name and the arguments to the program as the same thing. so every single document that i ever open with Ted or gv appears in the list of possible completions!! this is clearly not what i want as a user.

i'm sure many people want to use the Alt-F2 feature as it exists now, but it would be very handy if you could add a 'standard command line' mode so that it behaved in exactly the same way as the command line of a terminal window. 

quite often, i resort to typing something like:

gv /usr/home/iain/somedoc.pdf &

on the command line. this has the same effect, but it would be cooler if i could do it through Alt-F2.

cheers

iain