Comments on: Launchy Application Launcher Released for Linux

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[...] Dryer: Launchy Application Launcher Released for Linux. People who come to Linux from Windows may already be familiar with the Launchy open source [...]

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:44:47 +0000

For a simple and stable desktop, people don’t need ‘gnome-do’ – they can use ALT-F2 which is built in to the system and works for freshly installed apps, and is simply an enhanced command launcher (for example, once you find a command, you can put in front ‘gksu’ and launch that way – which you can’t do with Gnome-Do’.

However, gnome-do offers more options, and plugins, which enables it to be a more generally integrated and wide reaching application (with more options).

By: iampriteshdesai

iampriteshdesai — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:39:50 +0000

Thanks Tom and Thanks Daniel!!!

By: tedbundyjr

tedbundyjr — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:09:29 +0000

kudos for launchy, still need time for some stability issue.

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:03:39 +0000

64bit .debs: http://www.getdeb.net/search.php?keywords=launchy

By: Jonas

Jonas — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:00:41 +0000

“The suggestion list does two things I’m not sure are intentional or not. Pressing enter does nothing until I press the down key to select a suggestion, it seems that the first one should be the default.”

It is for me. No need to press down, enter is sufficient. Although that could be because it may feel more at home in my KDE 4 environment than in Gnome (both KDE and Launchy being written using qt4). Don’t know if that’s the case, just speculating a little.

Another odd thing though…sometimes it refuses to launch programs and I get an error claiming it can’t find the program in question. The same commandline works from a shell (or the alt-f2 combo) though, so it seems like it somehow tries to treat the arguments as a part of the filename. Sounds a bit far-fetched but the only thing I could think of. Either that or it doesn’t care about what’s in my path, but that sounds far-fetched too.

By: Mohan

Mohan — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:07:48 +0000

Correct me if I am wrong but isn’t GnomeDO coming installed by default on some version of Linux distractions? I just use the run command for apps right now, Alt+F2 does the job for me.

By: Chonnawonga

Chonnawonga — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:44:08 +0000

I’ll be happy when either one works with Amarok!

By: t3mujin

t3mujin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:58:44 +0000

I have Launchy on my Windows machines, but I’m not sure if it can match GnomeDo on Linux…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:42:34 +0000

iampriteshdesai:

In more recent versions of Gnome Do (0.5 and above) you can just click ‘Hide Window on First Launch’ in the Preferences window (you can get the preferences by clicking the little down arrow in the Gnome Do window).

I’m really enjoying the automatic installing of plugin updates in the latest version of Do (0.5.97 – downloaded through the ppa yesterday).