Searching with GNOME Do
Submitted by srlinuxx on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 08:57.
One of my favourite applications for Mac OS X is Launchbar, an indispensable application-launching utility. With it, you hit a hotkey command (such as COMMAND-SPACE) and Launchbar appears, ready to offer suggestions for applications or files as you type.
Now, on Linux, a similar application is available, called GNOME Do. GNOME Do (or Do, for short) allows you to quickly search for items that are present in your GNOME desktop environment. While it was written for GNOME, it is still just as useful on KDE or other desktop environments.
Do is available in some Linux distribution repositories, but it is still a fairly new application and many distributions have not yet packaged it. It is available for Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, and perhaps a few other distributions.
Careful, there's Mono
There's Mono in there, without a warning.
And a good thing, too
Mono's great!
Wow, Mono is that good!
Excuse the marketing tone, it's of course meant a tad ironic... But I've had it up to here with the tinfoil-hat-wearing conspiracy theorists, FUD- and mudslingers like Roy Schesto over there.
If you can do stuff like GNOME-Do in Mono, then Mono is a great framework, and I say: more power to it!
(Hmmmm...; perhaps we should post comments like 'there's Python in there, without a waring' or 'there Java in there, without a warning', or 'there's 'C' in there, without a warning'..? Yawn!)
Beware of Trojan Horse in Greek tragedy ? Search indexes ?
A few years ago, Google and Yahoo searches every media sorted by hit frequencies. Now they search indexes and sort by fuzzy logic of 4% keyword density instead of time and date stamped current data. Do we have a choice? Maybe someday MSN woke up?
Gnome Do is a sorting code and limit you to indexes.
It is a Trojan Horse in the world of information gathering society. You will be fooled looking at limited resources.
Roy may also be a Trojan Horse, to keep Microsoft invested in Novell. Greek tragedy in the making, Novell employees argue with Roy? AIX had to invest in RedHat anyway, same as windows(NT/BSD NOS) investing in Linux dhcpcd and someday edgeQam USB network operating system, Docsis packets?
But sorting is obsoleted by sql database? Old data must be obsoleted by current ones?
Trojan Horses
> Roy may also be a Trojan Horse, to keep Microsoft invested in Novell.
Nice imagination. *LOL*
Views from a Novl stockholder, Roy ? You helped ?
Thanks. $550 million from Microsoft kept Novell alive for another year or more. You showed Open source community doesn't care. Novl owns all the Linux free orgs by contributions? This is the Linux world in a nut shell?
Have fun. Please write more. We all love it, from the scanty negative responses.
Wait and watch
Wait and watch what Microsoft will do using Novell.