Comment 33 for bug 64064

My patch also works with:
 * Gnome + Alt-F2
 * XFCE + Alt-F2
 * KDE

This provides the desired behavior covers the main Ubuntu desktop managers, and the Bourne-compatible shells (dash, bash, ash, ksh) and would benefit the majority of [K/X/U]buntu users.

It does *not* break functionality on non-Bourne shells. Users of these shells will need to update their ~/.pam_environment or other .*rc scripts to add a fully qualified /home/user/bin to the PATH environment variable. Or, actually just:
    eval PATH="$PATH"
as the problem seems to be that non-Bourne shells do not evaluate the ~ or the $HOME variables in the PATH declaration.

Proposing for sponsorship for Intrepid.

:-Dustin