Gnome Do

While some could have wondered what had happened to me for the last 2 weeks as there's no updates of sorts since the last post about my Thailand trip...

Well, been on a rampage of on-off high fever since the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year and only fully recovered couple of days ago. Yeah, missed out all the good junk food during CNY. Too bad, but at least I'm back in action again. Since the recovery, somehow I lost the drive to post or do anything at all...simply have no mood for everything. Maybe it's the fatigue from fighting the fever or something I don't know, but I do certainly hope that would go away soon.

While that is in the process, I will just drop a short post introducing a cool Linux application I came across on the internet.

It's call Gnome Do.


In a nutshell, it is a search tool which integrates itself in the Gnome environment so it is hidden when you don't need it and can be easily invoke by pressing the SUPER+SPACE (default) keys. From there you just type the wildcard letters that correspond to the application you want to launch and within few letters, the closest match will appear on the left panel of the Do dialog.
Pressing the DOWN key will display a list of closely-matched results where user can select them. The right panel indicates the action that will be taken upon confirmation. To change that you can press TAB key and select the different actions by pressing the DOWN key.

So if you do not wish to execute the command/application at all, just press SUPER+SPACE keys again to close it without executing anything. You can also use it to search for files, using the same method as describe above selecting the "search for local files" command on the right panel.

It also includes numerous plugins, which can extend the functionality of Gnome Do like microblogging, google calendar search, Rhythmbox controls and more. The possibilities are only limited by the creativity of the developer community.

So far, DO seems to run superbly on my Ubuntu machine and no crash is observed. It is speedy and runs low on resource. While it is still in its infancy stage, so use it at your own risk. But should you try this out, please join the community to give your feedback so the application can be further improve with later versions. I see great potential in this application hence recommending this app. The application can be obtain thru the Ubuntu Respository or you can head over the website (URL posted above) to download the files. Enjoy.