Alt-F2 run application - doesn't run unique option by default

[Leandro]

When trying to run an application using the Alt-F2 shortcut, if the list of applications
recognised contains a single application, it is not run by default.

As example, here is what happens when one tries to run "calculator". Getting this
error message in this case is quite disturbing in terms of general usage.

Pressing "enter" should either launch the sole option of the list or go to the list,
in which case another "enter" would launch the selected option.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage , so I have classified this bug as a bug in gnome-panel package.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

That's not a bug, the calculator command is gcalctool not calculator

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

Invalid???? According to you, Sebastian, the bug is that the "gcalctool" application appears as
an option one when one types "calculator" in the input field.

Come on, obviously it must appear, obviously it will be the only option, and it is obvious that
it must be launched when one presses "enter".

Now, pressing enter in this situation returns "Could not open location 'file:///home/user/calculator'"
Now that's good usability....

I was really hopping this was getting to the 100 paper cuts.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what you type in that entry is a command not a .desktop name

[Leandro (leandromartinez98)]

I will tell that to my grandma then.

Just for curiosity, you actually think the present behavior should be kept as is?

(I'm sorry, but it actually irritates me that kind of technical answer, which I already knew,
for such an obvious usability issue. If this is not a bug, at least it should put in wishlist.
Otherwise, if you really don't see any problem in the way it is, then our concept of
usability, paper cuts or polish is very different).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

> Just for curiosity, you actually think the present behavior should be kept as is?

No, I just think that most users user the menus, those who run that dialog usually type a command or they might use the list to click on something (list which is not displayed by default), you combinaison of actions seems a corner case, that's fine and might be handled better but right now we get hundred of desktop bugs every week, we don't even manage to read all of those, the issue you discribe could perhaps be improved it just fall on the stack of ten of thousands bugs which are stacking in the system and we will likely never work on there...