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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [patch] Minicli shows app descriptions
From:       Unai Garro <ugarro () telefonica ! net>
Date:       2004-12-06 22:38:57
Message-ID: 200412062338.57587.ugarro () telefonica ! net
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It's just to make sure the app you are about to run is the one you wanted. 
It's much more descriptive than an icon that changes, especially for terminal 
programs or applications that lack icons. 

Try typing "nano"

it shows the default command. Then the label says "text editor". I think the 
second is more useful.

 It shouldn't be hard to imagine that you were thinking of one app, thinking 
the name was 'foo', and actually the name was 'blah'. I often confuse 
commands that have weird names and I rarely use.


>
> Sometimes I miss the kde1 minicli which only had a lineedit :/
>
> Which kind of use case does this improvement target?
> Either you know the name of the executable you want to launch (and then
> the description doesn't tell you anything you didn't already know), or
> you don't know the name of the executable - and then instead of trying
> 100 names in minicli (!) you simply open the K menu and start the app,
> right? So I fail to see the point...
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