In my opinion deskbar-applet is no appropriate replacement for mini-
commander. If I have to click on the icon first to get to the edit box,
I could press AltF2 too. It would be nice, if it would be included
again. (e.g. openSuSE 11.1 still includes it)
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mini-commander missing in 2.14.0ubuntu1
Now, almost three years after the initial bug report this problem still
remains...
I made a small patch to get rid of all traces of mini-commander in the
gnome-applets package when it is not built. If anyone knows of a valid
reason to keep the server file for a non-existent applet around please