The way I see it we have the Alt-F2 dialog for expert users that want to launch stuff by their full explicit path. I can't see what mortal users would gain from us indexing the full executable paths - what good does it bring the user that typing "usr" lists all 2100 executables under /usr/bin? I'm willing to bet that I am the only one in my family that has any idea what /usr/bin means.
Since the apps place already indexes executable names searching for "gimp" or "gnome-disp" matches "/usr/bin/gimp" and "/usr/bin/gnome- display-properties". So it should already meet experts half-way? The use case may be if you have alternate version of system apps installed under /opt or another path not indexed by the apps place. You can still launch those from the Alt-F2 dialog however. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731140 Title: Dash: Paths not indexed, literal "/usr/bin/gimp" shows "no results" -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
