Expose, LaunchBar, Butler on Linux?

[Thom May]

* James Gregory (james at james.id.au) wrote :
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:57:15PM -0400, Brett Kirksey wrote:
> > 
> > LaunchBar lets you hit a system wide hot key and then just start typing 
> > the name of any app, document, url, song, etc. and it will bring up a 
> > list of matching items and let you open the one you want.
> 
> Hitting ALT-F2 comes close. It will bring up a window you can type a
> command into on both GNOME and KDE. I haven't used KDE in a long time,
> but I know that the GNOME one will do auto-completion for you. I don't
> recall if it will deal with arbitrary filenames but it will definitely
> do programs.
> 
LaunchBar is one of the only features from OS X I really miss - the command
box really is not a substitute at all.
http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
Doing something like this on top of Beagle would rock hard.

-- 
That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
The Revolution will not be outsourced!
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