I have a new favourite, and one of my most used, applications. First, a quick history. I don’t like using a mouse and I don’t like menus, especially start menus. To avoid start menus I used to start most apps from a shell by creating a multitude of alias that I’d have to remember.

After that I moved onto using katapult which was better but flaky, likely because it was built for kde not gnome.

After that I moved onto deskbar-applet which I still use a bit today. I believe it comes on the ubuntu base install so you usually have it from the start.

I’m now using gnome-do for all this and it’s the slickest one yet…

“GNOME Do allows you to quickly search for many items present in your GNOME desktop environment (applications, Evolution contacts, Firefox bookmarks, files, artists and albums in Rhythmbox, Pidgin buddies) and perform commonly used actions on those objects (Run, Open, Email, Chat, Play, etc.).”

It’s inspired by, which all the above are, Quicksilver. Gnome-do has done the best of them all. If you’re on a linux OS and haven’t yet, give it a try.

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