Comment 6 for bug 325267

This isn't just limited to the "running a custom executable" scenario in the original description, but any case in which a keyboard user wants to quickly open the home directory. Alt-F2, ~, Enter, is really fast and works everywhere but GNOME, and GNOME's own developers don't seem interested in receiving patches for the problem. Why does Linux have to lose some of the things that made it great (like ~ and other expansions in the shell) in order to become "desktop friendly?"