GNOME Do 0.4

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

The Do team is proud to announce the release of GNOME Do 0.4, our shiniest, smartest, and friendliest version yet.

Starting with the small changes, we’ve added an “Open plugins folder” menu item to Do’s main menu to make it even easier to install new plugins. Someday we’ll have superb plugin management via Mono.Addins, but until then this will make it much easier for you to manage your plugins.

open-plugins

A few weeks ago an EeePC user told me that Do was too large on his screen and asked if we could make a smaller interface for low-resolution screens. I created a scaled-down version of the classic Do interface, but Jason Smith’s UI work allowed us to create a completely new interface optimized for smaller displays:

mini

To use this interface, start Do with gnome-do –mini.

We’ve also created a new interface for KDE users. It should blend very will with KDE’s Oxygen theme. I can’t wait to see how this looks on a KDE4 desktop.

glass3

To use this interface, start Do with gnome-do –glassframe. You can also see that we’ve added Copy to… and Move to… actions for working with files. We also added Move to Trash and Delete actions, but these had to be disabled at the last minute (so did the Open with… action) due to changes in GNOME. You should see these actions soon. Speaking of KDE, our Amarok plugin could really use some love, so if there are any Amarok users out there who would like to maintain the official Do Amarok plugin, please let me know.

We’ve done away with our dependency on Tomboy so you no longer need to have Tomboy installed for the Do keybinding to work. Also, some exciting new plugins have emerged recently, including Xesam and Tracker search plugins, an APTUrl plugin for installing software packages via apt, a Twitter plugin, and DR is working on an RSS plugin for Liferea/Firefox/Google Reader. Finally, we’ve added some preliminary learning features to Do so your most frequently used items and actions now bubble up to the top of your search results.

Big thanks to Rick, Jorge, Mathieu, and all the usual suspects. Special thanks to Jason Smith who did an amazing job creating the new interfaces; Jason had to do the painstaking view-controller separation I had been putting off in order to get these interfaces to work so well. Also, special thanks to Chris Halse Rogers; Chris has been extremely professional, doing whatever it takes to get the next release out the door without compromising the quality of his work. Great work all around. Enjoy!

23 comments

  1. Stéphan wrote,

    I’ve been using Gnome DO for months, cant’ do anything without it now Smile. Thank you for another great release !

  2. John E. wrote,

    Thank you for another great release with great features!

    Most unofficial plugins (Twitter, Tomboy, Google, Launchpad) seem to no longer work for me, even when compiling from source. Is this to be expected?

  3. Dave wrote,

    No, old plugins should work just fine — are you putting them in the right folder?

  4. John E. wrote,

    Yes, they’re all in the same folder they were in before: ~/.local/share/gnome-do/plugins. For example, the Twitter plugin does report “Successfully loaded “Tweet” action.” at startup, but typing “twe..” brings up nothing.

  5. Sean wrote,

    Great release, Dave!

    Now there’s just one option that I would really like- the ability to change the color of the window manually

  6. Matt wrote,

    My plugins aren’t working either, for the record. Each one throws a warning like this when loaded:

    ** (Do:24190): WARNING **: The class Do.Universe.AbstractCommand could not be loaded, used in Do.Addins, Version=1.0.2930.30509, Culture=neutral
    3/20/2008 10:52:53 PM [Error]: Encountered and error while trying to load plugin /home/matt/.local/share/gnome-do/plugins/Banshee.dll: Could not load type ‘Do.Universe.AbstractCommand’ from assembly ‘Do.Addins, Version=1.0.2930.30509, Culture=neutral’.

    I’m using the package from the gutsy PPA repo @ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Installation

    That being said, great release overall. I

  7. Dave wrote,

    Everyone, please re-download your plugins. Sorry for the hassle.

  8. Jack wrote,

    Dave, you are a good man. Thanks for making the people happy.

  9. Martin wrote,

    Getting the following error while trying to build plugins for debian from bazar

    checking for DO_ADDINS… configure: error: Package requirements (do.addins) were not met:

    can u lend me a hand plz?

    Keep on the exelent work mate!

  10. Tim wrote,

    I am trying not to type in all caps, but THANK YOU!

    I am a convert (at least on my work box) to Linux, and have been missing Quicksilver every minute. I’ve tried gnome-launch-box, but while it is an adequate launcher, that is all it is, and it isn’t really the best at that. I miss my del.icio.us bookmarks, etc.

    Thank you!

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  12. Agustin wrote,

    Cant find it in the repos, whats wrong?

    $ sudo apt-get install gnome-do
    Reading package lists… Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information… Done
    E: Couldn’t find package gnome-do

  13. Duncan wrote,

    can’t fine the package:

    W: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gnome-do/gnome-do_0.4.0.1-0ubuntu2~ppa3~gutsy_i386.deb
    404 Not Found

    any ideas?

  14. bruno wrote,

    Congratulations Dave, Gnome-Do is great. I installed it a day ago and I use it for everyting now! Hands off the mouse!
    I was happy to find out that your team is working on the “stacks” feature that Quicksilver has; I really look forward to see that implemented.
    Thanks for the good, free software.

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