19 comments

1. immensewok wrote,

   Excellent. Two very nice features that were high on my list
   I checked this out from your trunk and it works as it should but there were two catches. You need to install xclip to get the “Selected text” object to work. Gnome-Do will ask for this if you run it from the command line but its worth pointing out. Also, addins now seem to be called plugins. None of my old addins work out of the box and Gnome-Do won’t launch if I move them to ~/.do/plugins. Is this a minor thing that’ll work itself out or is the plugin system getting an overhaul?
   Some unsolicited advice from my screencast experience. I installed AlsaMixerGUI and just start flipping switches until the microphone worked. I used RecordMyDesktop for my screencast because it also captured the microphone (and got badly out of sync). I used ffmpeg to convert the out-of-sync video to an audio file and a silent video file. I used Audacity to change the tempo of the audio track so it was the same length as the silent video. Finally, I used ffmpeg to recombine the silent video with the new audio file.
   I didn’t realize you did the audio separately until you pointed it out so your solution worked well and may be much easier. Nice job overcoming the many obstacles to a good screencast.
   PS – I laughed when you said “Boom.”

2. Frank Quist wrote,

   This honestly looks completely awesome and will work to make GNOME eminently more cool.

3. beeman wrote,

   Hi Dave, i just Gnome-DO and i really like it! I’m looking forward to future versions…

   thanks!

4. beeman wrote,

   ‘i just *installed* Gnome-DO’

5. Dave wrote,

   Immensewok, I had to change a lot of addins code so the old addins broke, causing crashes when loaded (not a Do bug!). I renamed the addins directory “plugins” to emphasize this change and to prevent old addins from being loaded and crashing Do when people upgrade.

6. keyser wrote,

   how do i get this beauty ? i dont get it from “bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~do-core/gc/trunk-md gnome-do”

7. Dave wrote,

   Follow the link that reads “Get Do!” on the http://do.davebsd.com/

8. keyser wrote,

   I dont know whether I did something wrong. I followed the steps for building from source (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Installation) . Install went fine but i dont see the new features.
   bzr log shows last commit on 12 december (rev 116)

9. Dave wrote,

   The new features aren’t merged yet. Checkout trunk-david and do-plugins at https://code.launchpad.net/gc/. I am working on new features in those branches, and will later merge these features into trunk. As Immensewok mentioned, you need xclip for the selected text item and you need to put the plugins in ~/.do/plugins — NOT ~/.do/addins

10. Collin wrote,

    Hey, I have been trying to get those new features to work for hours now. I have downloaded the trunk-david, and do-plugins, put them both in the ~/.do/plugins directory, it just won’t work. I even reinstalled gnome-do from source. Do you know what to do? (yes, I have tried restarting my computer)

11. Dave wrote,

    Collin, I have no idea what your problem is. Can you be more specific? Tell me what you are trying to do, what you think should happen, and what happens instead?

12. Dave wrote,

    Also, Collin, use the plugins from http://do.davebsd.com/plugins/

13. Collin wrote,

    Yeah, I’m using the plugins from http://do.davebsd.com/plugins/ . I can’t get the plugins to work. That is my problem. I had them working before, then I tried to reinstall them under the plugin format (as opposed to addins) and they aren’t working.

14. Vadim P. wrote,

    Would it be alright if I decreased the nice value on gnome do? Sometimes it gets written to swap, and takes a while to come up. Defeating the purpose somewhat.

15. Dave wrote,

    Vadim, why are you asking me permission to do that? Do whatever you want on your machine(s). However, you might not want to do that until you’re running mono 1.2.6 or we’ve straightened out some of our memory usage issues (leaking icons and the Rhythmbox plugin is a hog).

16. Vadim P. wrote,

    Because I don’t know if that’ll mess something up!

    My mono was 1.2.4, it’s the latest one available in Ubuntu 7.10 repositories. Mono doesn’t provide Ubuntu .debs either, and I don’t want to install the .bin (because then I’ll forget how to get rid of it when I’ll need to. As already happened with other .bins :()

    I don’t use Rhythmbox (Amarok/VLC instead), so I’ll go ahead and remove that.

17. pt wrote,

    Nice update the select text feature is nice. It would be great if this can be connected to using your search engines in Firefox.
    eg. select a movie title and search in IMDB.

18. Rodrigo wrote,

    Hey there,
    First of all, very nice app man :D Helps a lot
    So, on to the problem. Gnome-do always starts when the session starts, but sometimes the blue border just vanishes… Has anyone had the same problem?
    I don’t know if I should be posting this here, it’s just that I don’t know where to xP

19. Rodrigo wrote,

    I’m sorry for the doubt above. Solved it after a little search (: