Public bug reported:
This is a feature request to increase the usability of Ubuntu.
It is easy even for a newbie to install applications by using Synaptic,
apt-get, aptitude, etc. However, there is no (easy) way for the (newbie)
user to know what is the command line (or Alt F2) command to launch the
application in question.
Now one might ask, why would a newbie use command line to launch apps.
Well, there are still lots of apps that are run _only_ from the command
line. One really needs to know the commands to launch those apps.
Sometimes the command is not the actual name of the package that is
installed via Synaptic etc. For a basic example, how could a newbie know
that openoffice is launched with a command "soffice" and not for example
"office" or "openoffice" (well, for OOo there are graphical icons, so
this example is not the best but it was the first that got into my
mind)?
I am suggesting, that the application description shown in Synaptic could
include information on the command that is used to launch the application.
(I have been using Ubuntu 7.04 and 7.10 for the last one year and I still
consider me as a newbie. Therefore I would not be surprised at all to hear that
all those launch commands can be found somewhere from one place. At least I
have not found them even though I have been searching for them...)
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Incomplete
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Command line commands to launch applications are nowhere to be found (?) at
least for a newbie
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208921
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