"Run" dialogue : auto-completion doesn't work with gksudo

[Trouilliez vincent]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When you press "Alt+F2" you get a little dialogue where you can enter manually the name of a GUI program you want to execute.
There is an auto-completion feature that greatly helps in entering the program name, and I love it.
The problem I noticed is that when the program I want to run requires administrative rights, I need to enter "gksudo" before the name of the program. The problem I experience is that auto-completion works for "gksudo", but NOT for the program name :-(
I think the problem might be that the auto-completion only works for the first word you type. It would be good if it could work for all the words, or at least if it could "special case" gksudo.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It completes the command name, setting as a feature request to support the gksu,gksudo special case

[Marco Dalla Vecchia (marco-dave)]

maybe adding a checkbox saying "run with administrator privileges" or something like that ?
It could be added under the "run in terminal" checkbox, and it would be hidden/disabled for those
users not in the "admin" group (that allows sudo)

[Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet)]

Hmm, I fear it would just add cluter to the GUI for no real reason. Much better to hack the auto-completetion mechanism to special case gksu[do] IMHO, or, better improve it so that auto-completion works on all words/strings, not just the first one. That would fix the problem properly once and for all.

[TB2 (gt6)]

I don't know if you are aware, but the same problem is present in the terminal. There is no autocompletition for commands, e.g.

"sudo ge{tab}" will give me "sudo gedit"
but
"gksudo ge{tab}" will just do a system beep.

And this is seriously annoying, especially as people have been called only to use gksudo for gui apps im Gnome from now on ^^

[Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko)]

Problem still exists
up-to-date intrepid

Running in terminal
sudo ge{tab} will give sudo gedit
gksu ge{tab} gives nothing
gksudo ge{tab} gives nothing

Shouldn't the package be libgksu{tab} (if needed) rather than gnome-panel?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I think this has nothing todo with GNOME itself, but rather with "bash-completion"

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

This bug is about the problems with the run dialog in general: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455560