Bug 158204

Summary: kde4 krun -- run a terminal
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: andrew <aos>
Component: generalAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description andrew 2008-02-22 06:52:30 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.1)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:                Linux

one thing in krun aka "run command" could use work. When nothing is entered for it to star instead of having "Show options" listed, could you make it say "run terminal"? and when for example someone types konsole there or whatever, then "run terminal" will disspear and instead it will say "Show options". Thanks!
Comment 1 Aaron J. Seigo 2008-02-22 07:17:07 UTC
having buttons switchign purpose like that is pretty bad usability; it also assumes that launching konsole is so common that it deserves it's own button (some of the time). there are better ways to achieve this.
Comment 2 andrew 2008-02-22 07:39:45 UTC
its just my suggestion, I dont say this is a "must" but i think putting terminal somewhere easy to access is a must, since I probaly run terminal a few hundred times a day and i bet most ppl do the same.
Comment 3 S. Burmeister 2008-02-22 09:55:42 UTC
If you want quick access to the terminal, you can put a button on the panel or assign a shortcut to it. That's a lot quicker than having to press ALT+F2 and then click a button. In fact, you could just use kickoff with that amount of keystrokes.

I doubt that a lot of people start konsole 100 times a day, but rahter re-use their x konsoles they have already opened.
Comment 4 robermann 2008-05-16 21:55:04 UTC
When setting a menu entry to start in terminal mode, the started process does
not run into the directory chosen by the "work path" option.

The same is true when editing manually .desktop files: if Terminal=true, Path
variable is not used. 

You can quickly reproduce this behaviour by creating a script:
echo `pwd` >> /tmp/touched

And then creating a menu entry for it, setting a "work path" value. Run it
first without selecting "run in terminal", the checking it.

I'm using live cd kde4 20080430 i386.

Comment 5 robermann 2008-05-16 21:56:50 UTC
ooops - created bug http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162183