<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook <<a href="mailto:jtwdyp@ttlc.net">jtwdyp@ttlc.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> It would appear that on Feb 19, David Collins did say: <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > Joe, > > Maybe you should try out Gnome Do. > I don't use it myself, but it sounds really good if you are keyboard-centric. > <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Do" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME_Do</a> </div></div>Thank you for the suggestion Dave. I'd never heard of "gnome do" before so I did a little scroogleing around and found: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo</a> Which said the page had moved to: <a href="http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Main_Page" target="_blank">http://do.davebsd.com/wiki/Main_Page</a> This included a description of how it works, and had a screen shot or two. And while I'm glad to know something like this is out there it is definitely not for me... wiki said: => Unlike other search tools that present search results as flat, homogeneous lists, => Do provides familiar graphical depictions of search results that assure => you that your intent is being realized correctly; One of the reasons why I'm keyboard centric is because my brain is sort of text centric... That is I don't exactly think in words, but I certainly don't actually think in pictures. And while I depend heavily on menu choices because I can't remember the command and syntax of anything I don't do on a daily basis (call it CRS) I need labels not icons and pictorial references... {for example if I could still get a 5-day weather display to use text labels like "rain" instead of a gosh durned freaking picture of a cloud with falling raindrops and occasional lightning flashes I could still take in the data at a glance instead of having to stare at it for nearly a full minute until my brain finishes describing the pictures to itself so that I can finally start to read the actual text above and below...} => searching for "mom" will show a picture of mom, and searching for => "beatles" will show a Beatles album cover. Now that would ummnn "bug" me... I'd want a text only list that also included some "Entomology" choices and something about and old Volkswagen... But I wouldn't want a single picture or graphic icon until AFTER I made a selection... Still, I'm glad to know that someone still believes in keyboard input... And I might even suggest "gnome do" to some of my visually oriented friends... Thanks again for the suggestion... </blockquote></div> It's really not that visually-centered. What I mostly use it for is to start an application: I press Super+Space to summon GNOME Do, then I type the name or function of the appliciation that I want to run (e.g. "web" to start Firefox web browser - you don't need to type the full selection). It's really easy for someone keyboard-centric like me. And it's not just limited to launching applications, of course; I also use it e.g. to post a message to Twitter. Super+Space, type my tweet, press tab and type "Tw" and enter. Of course, you can just try it to find out if you like it and remove it if not ;-) -- Vincent