Comments on: A drop-down launcher for favorite files

By: SIGTERMer

SIGTERMer — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:30:34 +0000

when i was reading your rss feed, i expected to see a panel applet that allows you to browse a file system (something similar to what KDE has). shame gnome doesn’t include this by default.

By: Bob Mesibov

Bob Mesibov — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 11:15:25 +0000

Hi, Mango.

I agree, Gnome Do is pretty cool, and I looked at it as a document launcher. However, it sits on the desktop. I wanted something to launch a selection of documents from a panel. This was the easiest way I found to do that.

By: Bob Mesibov

Bob Mesibov — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:51:47 +0000

Many thanks, Anxious Nut. I never thought to include a screenshot in my original post.

Note also that Gnome drawers are a bit slow. This is an old bug, not yet fixed in Gnome 2.26.

By: anxious nut

anxious nut — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:18:58 +0000

Some guy named Bob Mesibov just sent me a message attaching an image, asking me to put it here If the image didnt show up above click here "The screenshot shows the upper left corner of my Gnome desktop, with the files drawer (red apple icon) open to show face icons for 7 frequently used files. The cursor is hovering over the file 'Sites'."

By: Anxious Nut

Anxious Nut — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:58:30 +0000

thanks, but to be honest without snapshots most of us will not do it.

I read it all, but i mean you should show us at least a snapshot of the final result!

__AnxiousNut

By: Mango

Mango — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:50:08 +0000

I mentioned applications in my post above but I should have mentioned that I have it configured for documents and folders (with a bit of tweaking) and also use it’s plugins for google docs, calendar and rmilk.com (very handy).

By: Mango

Mango — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 01:47:27 +0000

If you want to get rid of menu’s all together I can recommend checking out gnome-do (http://do.davebsd.com/).

I use do for launching applications (by pressing win+space and typing the app name) but can still call upon the gnome menu with alt+f1 still if I ever need it.