Jun. 14, 2008
I have been running Gnome Do for quite some time now and fully agree with it being "A powerful, speedy, and sexy remote control for your GNOME Desktop". I am now wondering how I actually coped without it in the past.
So what is it? Well, GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver and GNOME Launch Box. There are quite a few screenshots and movies at their homepage which gives it the presentation it deserves. But, basically it allows you to start your applications in a very speedy, efficient and sexy way. You activate Gnome Do using a predefined keyboard sequence, the default being Super + Space. Using the default subset of plugins Gnome Do is aware of your Music collection, your pidgin contacts, Evolution contacts, Gnome Menus, Firefox bookmarks, ssh servers and much more. By simply starting to type the name of an application, a contact or the name of a song Gnome Do proposes a number of matches with matching actions. Typing the name of a e-mail contact Gnome Do proposes the action Email.
A beatiful feature of Do is that it actually learns what tasks your commonly doing and proposes applications, contacts, music better and better and better each time. As an example the first time I locked my screen I had to type super + space followed by "lock screen". Today I simply need to do a super + space followed by the letter "l".
Well, try it out and hopefully you will be as pleased as me. I have went so far as removing all gnome panels, and menus and simply running Gnome Do and Avant Window Navigator now.