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- inactive, on 06/10/2008, -3/+45GNOME Do's a really great project, and I'm glad to see it progressing so consistently. This new version's got me excited, as configuring it seems easier than ever before.
Good job, developers :D - inactive, on 06/10/2008, -2/+24I first tried out GNOME Do months back out of curiosity, but thinking I personally had very little use for it. I had no idea how quickly it would improve how I navigate my computer.
This program has completely changed the ease and speed of using my laptop without pairing a mouse to it. Even when I am sitting comfortably at home with a mouse, it's often the fastest and simplest way to do many things.
Even though there have been very similar programs like Quicksilver, KRunner, Launchy and others for some time, people I know who are seeing a Linux desktop the first time (via my computer) are often more impressed with my use of GNOME Do than than any of the Compiz silliness or command line nerdiness.
High-five to the developers and the everyone making the awesome plugins! - brisbin33, on 06/10/2008, -1/+19I've been using Quicksilver on my Mac for quite some time now, and up until now I had been waiting for DO to catch up to QS; with these new plugins though, i think it might be the other way around. very cool stuff.
- mmmdelishus, on 06/10/2008, -0/+17It provides an easy and fast way to do multiple actions from the keyboard.
After hitting the shortcut Win key+Space, it pops up on screen and you can start typing, it predicts what you are typing based on the programs and files on your computer, once you choose the appropriate program you can press enter to run the default action or press TAB and select from various other actions that can be performed.
With the addition of all these new plugins and many more from the community, it is very useful and hard to describe until you have tried it. - santasing, on 06/10/2008, -4/+18Its a great project, but the Mono dependency kills it for me. They should have used Python or some such.
- DarkStalker, on 06/10/2008, -2/+15I have to admit, I'm ignorant... I haven't been able to see anything that explains exactly what this Do thing... does. Big giant buttons?
- estvir, on 06/10/2008, -2/+15It receives so little attention too. All those apparent pro-FOSS people on here should stop Digging the same regurgitated "M$ IS BAD LOL $0330 REASONS whYI SIWTCHE LIUNX" rubbish over and over again and start promoting small projects like this.
0.5 has made some pretty huge changes to some annoying things the previous versions lacked (Preferences, good plug-in management, etc). It'll be good to try it out once I boot into Linux.
One little thing, is there an 'easy' way to hide the splash screen in this version without having to add the --hide or whatever tag to it? - mynameistux, on 06/11/2008, -0/+12whenever I am on windows, I press super key+space, and get pissed of when it doesn't work.
- gavintlgold, on 06/10/2008, -0/+7Ever heard of Quicksilver for the mac? It's like that.
- santasing, on 06/11/2008, -0/+7Its not about paranoia. The way Mono is being handeled is not right and is designed to push Novell by using the FUD of a MS approved Linux vs. other distros which are not MS approved and are thus liable to lawsuits.
I will install Mono the day MS or Novell what exactly their deal covers. - solarwind24, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6I'm willing to port it.
- davebsd, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6You may also find that QS has many more features because it was in development for 6 years, and I've been working on Do for only 10 months. Give Do 5 more years and let's revisit your claim that those features are impossible to reproduce. One thing that QS has Do beat on is API availability -- Apple has *amazing* APIs, and Linux, is, well, a mess to be quite frank. But, Linux is so transparent that you can do pretty much anything, but you usually have to figure out how yourself.
- JasonHaley, on 06/11/2008, -0/+6All those lists that read "Top 10 Applications You Need for Linux" rarely mention Gnome Do. But for me, it's the first thing I install. It makes Linux' navigation so much faster.
- yetAnotherCroc, on 06/10/2008, -2/+8Wow Gnome Do is getting more useful by the minute! Like the new plugins. Will have to download it when I get home from work.
- estvir, on 06/10/2008, -0/+5> .. are often more impressed with my use of GNOME Do than than any of the Compiz silliness or command line nerdiness.
Exactly, programs like this need so much more attention.
I do wish someone would combine Gnome Do (Linux)/Quicksilver (Mac)/Enso (Win) because I love each of these apps but they're each OS specific. ;_; - Portachking, on 06/10/2008, -2/+7I love Gnome Do. I was on their IRC channel looking for help once too, the guys working on it are real gents to boot.
- kodek, on 06/11/2008, -1/+6Oh, wow, Quicksilver is sooo much better. I'm gonna install it.
Oh, wait, I can't cause Linux != Mac OS
And yes, this is supposed to be a Quicksilver clone. A damn good one. - davebsd, on 06/11/2008, -0/+5Hey, not sure if you know how computer programs work, but there's actually more to them than just their interfaces. Yes, we wanted Do to look exactly like QS because we are avid QS users when we're on the Mac. (Hi, I'm the author of Do and I'm a Mac and Linux user). Here's my whitepaper on Do -- http://davebsd.com/do/gnome_do_white_paper.pdf -- I talk about all the things that make Do different from QS if you're interested. I bet you're not, but there it is. Also, I challenge you to find out that much info about QS. See if you can find an in-depth description of how QS works.
- stalefries, on 06/10/2008, -1/+6Try lookinag at this article: http://www.lifeclever.com/scott-hanselman-10-quick ...
Gnome Do, as far as I can tell, is heavily modeled off of Quicksilver, an excellent app that is unfortunately Mac-only. - sint4x, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4The idea looks really cool. I like seeing innovative apps that allow quicker navigation through an OS. I wish something like this was released for Windows (or it was cross-platform).
- Delta32521, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4they're also working on an amarok plugin as we speak
- sandyarmstrong, on 06/10/2008, -0/+4Try Enso for Windows.
- waspinator, on 06/11/2008, -1/+5wouldn't this be for gnome?
- Delta32521, on 06/11/2008, -0/+4Yes. In the preferences you can tell it to hide the window on the first launch (also known as quiet mode).
- courtjester555, on 06/10/2008, -2/+6Immediately dugg for the sweet Colbert Report reference in the title. Of course, I liked the article as well.
- Mejogid, on 06/10/2008, -1/+4I'll agree with most of that, and it's definately a really fantastic piece of software. However, while I realise you're just using Compiz and the command line as examples it's slightly ironic that GNOME Do depends heavily on both of these. Compiz (or more generally any compisiting manager) allows the transparency, rounded edges and other effects that make this (and many other new projects) anything other than rectangular, grey windows. Even more importantly, it's the fantastic power of the command line that enables the mast majority of plugins & functions to be implemented so easily and cleanly.
- treed, on 06/10/2008, -0/+3I was an avid QS fan for quite some time, but I find that it's crashing way too often these days, and no updates seem to be forthcoming.
I've ended up using Butler, which is nowhere near as capable as QS, but *is* faster and more reliable. (The worst part about QS crashing is that you can't use Force Quit. You have to open a terminal to kill it.)
I wish GNOME Do were available on OSX. - neocognitism, on 06/10/2008, -1/+4mmmmmmmbiscuits?
- srg13, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Wow, Do is actually really cool now that I've given it a go - it doesn't sound as useful on paper as it is when you use it... You can basically open anything by typing two or three letters and pressing enter - it's really, really fast.
- hobophobe, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Not sure where you got that idea. I'm typing this from a Gnome desktop without a stitch of Mono. Is it available? Yeah. But nothing I use requires it (or even utilizes it).
If you are serious, please elaborate what you meant. Taking your comment at face value it's fallacious. - nationalist, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3it's a launcher and robot (automator)
- DarkDx, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3I give ***** to charities every saturday.
- priegog, on 06/11/2008, -0/+3Thanks, I too was lost about what the hell this was. And your description made me download it. Looking forward to it!
- waspinator, on 06/11/2008, -1/+4What's so bad about Mono? Isn't banshee written with it? I probably don't get something ...
- DarkLaughingMan, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2It has it with rhythmbox (dunno if there's any plugins for other music players in Linux)
- Atomic1fire, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Needs a funny tagline
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Do it, you know you want to. - yetAnotherCroc, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Yeah me too. At work I find myself doing that or hitting the corners with my mouse only to be perplexed for a split second when nothing happens. Then I curse windows for being so user unfriendly.
- jay019, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Um, your point? I fail to see it.
- neko, on 06/12/2008, -0/+2For me, it's ALT-drag and ALT-resize. Once you've tried it (for me, it was WindowMaker in 1999), you just can't go without it.
- trogdoor, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Quicksilver is annoyingly unstable for me.
- hadak, on 06/10/2008, -0/+2Wow. Here, I thought Quicksilver was king...this might just take the cake! (And when's the last time we've honestly seen a real update in Quicksilver? No, really? When? I have my updates set to automatic and silent ^^)
- Endemoniada, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2The rest of us.
- skyshock1, on 06/11/2008, -0/+2Think of it as a very powerful launcher that lets you have access to any application/folder/document instantly via the keyboard - as opposed to mousing around drilling down through menu items and clicking on icons. You simply type the launcher shortcut then start typing whatever it is you want to do.
- user9, on 06/11/2008, -5/+6Wtf does Gnome Do DO?!?
- h0ly, on 06/10/2008, -1/+2Vala could also be a good alternative.
- inactive, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1That is such an awesome interface plugin. Any more cool stuff that doesnt show up in the plugin list?
- Origin415, on 06/13/2008, -0/+1I used Launchy on XP, on Vista, theres a launch bar on the new start menu (one of Vista's better features).
Overall, gnome-do needs some catching up to do in quality to those, but it definitely has quantity of things to do down. I just can't stand it when I do a command in Do, and it forgets immediately that I choose that command over whatever it brings up as the default action. - Dracker, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Yes, but by virtue of being written in gtk-sharp, gnome-do pulls in nearly all of gnome and mono as dependencies.
As an xfce user, I would prefer an app that only pulled in GTK. Since I run my stystem from a squashfs image in RAM, every megabyte counts, and putting all of gnome in the image hurts a lot. - skyshock1, on 06/11/2008, -0/+1If you were looking for an alternative on Linux there is always Katapult. It's more KDE specific though, and I don't think it's quite as extensible as Quicksilver. It appears Gnome-DO is following in the footsteps of Quicksilver, which is fantastic.
- migueldeicaza2, on 06/11/2008, -1/+2Mono-based Gtk applications consume less memory than equivalent Python ones, and also run faster while still providing a secure environment like Python does.
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