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[...] for Linux that’s as good as iMovie (not that it’s the best, of course). There are various Linux Quicksilver clones out there to my understanding. It seems "Gnome Do" might be the most popular one (and [...]

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By: Edoardo

Edoardo — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:43:24 +0000

Launchy for linux has been released… I like it more than gnome-do

http://www.launchy.net/

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:17:17 +0000

*@tejasvi*: while packages might be unavailable for other distributions at this point, you should be able to download and install from source fairly easily. And the way the project is going, I’m more than confident that it will be packaged for most popular distributions before the end of the year.

By: T e j a s v i

T e j a s v i — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:25:34 +0000

I got introduced to QuickSilver early last year and this influenced my purchase of the Macbook a great deal. Its quite possibly the most worthwhile app I have used in a while :). I cant seem to do without my mac when at work, mostly because of QS. Nice to hear about Gnome Do, but looks like a shift to Ubuntu is the only way to get this baby working in an easy way.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:38:09 +0000

*@tel*: You make some good points. However, for me at least, a big part of Quicksilver’s appeal is the UI. I am fairly competent with both zsh and bash and I would not even begin comparing them with Quicksilver. So calling QS “just a rediscovery” seems a little too harsh :-)

Meanwhile, QS is much more than just an application launcher. The whole point is to have a universal UI for actions — once you get a hang of the plugin system, you can unify more and more of your workflows into that single interface.

By: Tel

Tel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:25:42 +0000

Quicksilver is just a rediscovery of the command line interface. You know how all the mums and dads would NEVER be able to work a command line because a GUI is so much easier? Well, Linux has always had powerful command line shells with tab-completion. You can check out zsh or bash.

You can even look at the “waffle” package that is part of the sawfish window manager which has been EXACTLY doing what Quicksilver does since 2003 (i.e. pop-up command completion over GUI background).

Most users find that there are no more than a dozen applications that they regularly launch and assigning a few hotkeys ends up being more efficient (and easier) than a quicksliver-style interface which is why the sawfish/waffle thingy never got popular.

By: Cillian

Cillian — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:05:08 +0000

I’ve used it for less than a day, but I’m totally hooked. Gnome-launch-box used to stall on me from time to time and I only ever used it to launch apps, GNOME Do is lightening fast and already has more functionality. I asked about changing the default colour to black in the code on launchpad and David responded within an hour with instructions! I’m using it on GNOME so I don’t know about issues with KDE but if you’ve reported them already I bet they’ll be dealt with quickly.

By: Diwaker Gupta

Diwaker Gupta — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:07:09 +0000

*@cillian*: Even I’m giving it a shot these days, though it doesn’t behave very nicely with KDE yet :-( Let me know what your experience is like.

By: Cillian

Cillian — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:10:39 +0000

I’ve been a happy user of gnome-launch-box since it first came out and have been disappointed that it hasn’t moved much. I recently heard about quicksilver going open source and have been holding my breath for a Linux version, there’s no sign of one yet, but this is the first I’ve heard of GNOME Do and it sounds like an active and exciting project. Thanks for the tip, I’ll be installing it and trying it out very soon.