Hi, * Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> [2010-11-06 15:31]: > 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.
Your reasoning makes good sense to me. I personally don't use this tool so I didn't notice it much before but splitting it into a separate package seems like a good idea. Will do that in the next upload. Cheers Nico -- Nico Golde - http://www.ngolde.de - n...@jabber.ccc.de - GPG: 0xA0A0AAAA For security reasons, all text in this mail is double-rot13 encrypted.
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