SUMMARY It's possible to run terminal commands like grep and cat through the start menu. This however does not do anything visually. A new user will be very confused by this and there is a risk of them running something deleterious without them knowing. To remedy this I suggest that whenever a terminal command is ran from the start menu, a terminal window is opened with the command running on it. It's up in the air if this window should close automatically when the program finishes running or if it should stay open so that the user can see and copy whatever output the terminal has. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.10.0 Kernel Version: 6.17.7-arch1-1 (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-7600U CPU @ 2.80GHz Memory: 24 GiB of RAM (23.2 GiB usable) Graphics Processor: Intel® HD Graphics 620 Manufacturer: LENOVO Product Name: 20HG0003SG System Version: ThinkPad T470s
Can you explain a little more about running grep or cat in the start menu? On my system, with Solus, if I type grep or cat in the Application Launcher, it searches through programs. If i press Enter, whatever is highlighted will open. I don't see a way to run those commands from the menu.
Created attachment 186908 [details] kickoff This is what it looks like in Kickoff. The user is able to click on that last entry, but it visually does nothing.
Thanks for the screenshot, that's helpful. A note for reproduction: It's necessary to go into the Application Launcher Settings - Configure Search Plugins Enable "Command Line" I'm changing this to a bug, since this seems like something's not working as intended. If it is, this is not a good user experience. Running something that doesn't appear to do anything is confusing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 445159 ***