{"id":3919,"date":"2008-08-28T09:37:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T07:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2008-08-28T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T07:37:12","slug":"switching-from-launchy-to-gnome-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/08\/28\/switching-from-launchy-to-gnome-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching from Launchy to Gnome-Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a first attempt at creating a cross-plattform application, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.launchy.net\/\">Launchy<\/a> for Linux has a lot going for it: it is small, fast and elegant, and has a nice selection of plugins and skins. But for the past couple of weeks, two major bugs have become really annoying: Launchy opens <a href=\"http:\/\/ubuntuforums.org\/showthread.php?t=882516\">all application scripts in a text editor<\/a>, which means that half of my applications fail to run, and for some reason several of my most important directories are never indexed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/gnome-do.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3958 aligncenter\" title=\"gnome-do\" src=\"http:\/\/newth.net\/eirik\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/gnome-do.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There doesn&#8217;t seem to be a fix in the pipeline, and as a result I installed <a href=\"http:\/\/do.davebsd.com\/\">Gnome-Do<\/a> instead. It seems just as snappy as Launchy, and although I haven&#8217;t been able to find a configuration menu the default installation runs all applications and opens most directories as it should. <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">I qualify my statement, as there seems to be a problem with Gnome&#8217;s standard directories. Rather than opening \/home\/eirik\/Documents, say, Gnome-Do opens \/home\/eirik instead.<\/span> By default in version 0.4.* directories are opened with the &#8220;Reveal&#8221; option, and you have to tab to the Options window and type Open to get Gnome-do to truly open the directory. I upgraded to the latest version, and now directories are opened directly by default.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a first attempt at creating a cross-plattform application, Launchy for Linux has a lot going for it: it is small, fast and elegant, and has a nice selection of plugins and skins. But for the past couple of weeks,&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/2008\/08\/28\/switching-from-launchy-to-gnome-do\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newth.net\/eirik\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}