GNOME Do
It seems I have not yet blogged about GNOME Do.
GNOME Do is an application like Quicksilver (MacOS X) and GNOME Launch Box.
So, what is it? I always describe it as “command line for the desktop“.
You open Do with a simple keystroke. Then you just type away, and control your system. You can just type application names, and choose to open them. You can type file names, and move/copy/extract them. You can type any text and send it to Twitter or Google or IMDb. You can type an album name, choose a song and immediately add it to your MP3 player queue. And these are just a couple of examples from the vast possibilities in Do with all plugins enabled.
Saying more about it would be a waste of your time. If you are at all interested, you should definitely get it! The last week I have been so amazed by it that I plan to donate 5€ to the Do team for their efforts.
If you are on Ubuntu, don’t bother to install the slightly outdated 0.4 version in the repositories. GNOME Do has a release version repository at http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu. All the available plugins will be downloaded automatically when you activate them (great feature btw). Unfortunately, the Twitter plugin (which worked in 0.4) doesn’t work in 0.5 for a lot of people (Launchpad Bug 238902).
July 17th, 2008 at 20:42
i was just about to install gnome-do, but then realized that it would suck in ‘mono’ as a dependency. yuck
a real console is way nice anyways…