Package: openbox Version: 3.4.11.1-1 Severity: wishlist Heya, it looks like that several GNOME users, which are favoring over window managers over metacity, face a recurrent problem: how do I invoke the GNOME run dialog from the command line? I've seen instances of the same problem at least in Xmonad, openbox, and awesome communities.
openbox seems to be the only one providing a command line tool for that, namely /usr/bin/gnome-panel-control, while others usually reimplement the same trick (e.g. xmonad). I'm myself using gnome-panel-control but not openbox itself, and it seems to me a bit pointless to keep openbox installed just for that utility. Hence I wonder: have you considered splitting away a separate binary package, say "gnome-panel-control", containing just the above mentioned utility? It seems to me that the utility is way more general than openbox and that it will get more visibility that way. An alternative could be to ask the gnome-panel maintainers to ship the utility as a patch or, even better, to propose it upstream. Thanks a lot for this amazing utility (which it took me a while to find ...) Cheers. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages openbox depends on: ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libobparser21 3.4.11.1-1 parsing library for openbox ii libobrender21 3.4.11.1-1 rendering library for openbox them ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library ii libstartup-notification 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library ii libxau6 1:1.0.6-1 X11 authorisation library ii libxext6 2:1.1.2-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii libxft2 2.1.14-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library ii libxml2 2.7.7.dfsg-4 GNOME XML library ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages openbox recommends: pn openbox-themes <none> (no description available) Versions of packages openbox suggests: ii libxml2-dev 2.7.7.dfsg-4 Development files for the GNOME XM ii menu 2.1.44 generates programs menu for all me pn obconf <none> (no description available) ii python 2.6.6-3+squeeze1 interactive high-level object-orie ii ttf-dejavu 2.31-1 Metapackage to pull in ttf-dejavu- -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
