GNOME Do
GNOME Do allows you
to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME
desktop
environment. These include applications, Evolution
contacts, Firefox
bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox,
Pidgin
buddies, etc.), as well as letting you perform commonly used
actions on those items (Run, Open, Email, Chat, Play, etc.).
Press Super+Spave (Windows+Space) brings up a dialog, at which
point anyting can be typed. In the screenshot to the left,
typing ev has brought up the Evolution icon. GNOME Do's pop-up
window has two panes: the left pane displays the
matches for what you type on the keyboard, and the right displays the
action that will happen when you press Enter.
GNOME Do is plugin based, allowing it to be easily extended to
handle
new items and actions. This package contains a core set of
items and actions.
Although GNOME Do primarily targets the GNOME
desktop, it also
works under other desktop environments. If you prefer the KDE
Desktop Environment, you may wish to try out
Katapult.
Features include:
- Built-in Plugins:
- Firefox
- indexes Firefox
bookmarks
- Files - indexes files in user-specified directories
- Official Plugins for Rhythmbox,
Banshee,
Amarok,
Google
Calculator, Evolution,
Pidgin,
GNOME Session, Search Web, Locate Files,
Epiphany, Play Slideshow, Tasque, Tomboy,
Twitter, AptUrl, SSH and
Vinagre
- Third-party Plugins: Disk Mounter, Wordnet, TSClient,
Gmail,
XSearch, del.icio.us, RSS, and GNOME Terminal Actions
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GNOME Do also features in our 'Linux
Equivalents to Windows Software' section. The category
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Last Updated Monday, April 04 2011 @ 03:31 PM EDT
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