Thursday, January 3rd, 2008...9:41 pm
GNOME Do: screencast numero dos
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The ability to perform actions on selected text, more advanced commands with modifier items, and a really cool new file search command. Check it out!
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January 4th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Excellent. Two very nice features that were high on my list
I checked this out from your trunk and it works as it should but there were two catches. You need to install xclip to get the “Selected text” object to work. Gnome-Do will ask for this if you run it from the command line but its worth pointing out. Also, addins now seem to be called plugins. None of my old addins work out of the box and Gnome-Do won’t launch if I move them to ~/.do/plugins. Is this a minor thing that’ll work itself out or is the plugin system getting an overhaul?
Some unsolicited advice from my screencast experience. I installed AlsaMixerGUI and just start flipping switches until the microphone worked. I used RecordMyDesktop for my screencast because it also captured the microphone (and got badly out of sync). I used ffmpeg to convert the out-of-sync video to an audio file and a silent video file. I used Audacity to change the tempo of the audio track so it was the same length as the silent video. Finally, I used ffmpeg to recombine the silent video with the new audio file.
I didn’t realize you did the audio separately until you pointed it out so your solution worked well and may be much easier. Nice job overcoming the many obstacles to a good screencast.
PS - I laughed when you said “Boom.”
January 4th, 2008 at 6:50 am
This honestly looks completely awesome and will work to make GNOME eminently more cool.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Hi Dave, i just Gnome-DO and i really like it! I’m looking forward to future versions…
thanks!
January 4th, 2008 at 7:03 am
‘i just *installed* Gnome-DO’
January 4th, 2008 at 7:31 am
Immensewok, I had to change a lot of addins code so the old addins broke, causing crashes when loaded (not a Do bug!). I renamed the addins directory “plugins” to emphasize this change and to prevent old addins from being loaded and crashing Do when people upgrade.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:38 am
how do i get this beauty ? i dont get it from “bzr co http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~do-core/gc/trunk-md gnome-do”
January 4th, 2008 at 7:40 am
Follow the link that reads “Get Do!” on the http://do.davebsd.com/
January 4th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I dont know whether I did something wrong. I followed the steps for building from source (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeDo/Installation) . Install went fine but i dont see the new features.
bzr log shows last commit on 12 december (rev 116)
January 4th, 2008 at 8:19 am
The new features aren’t merged yet. Checkout trunk-david and do-plugins at https://code.launchpad.net/gc/. I am working on new features in those branches, and will later merge these features into trunk. As Immensewok mentioned, you need xclip for the selected text item and you need to put the plugins in ~/.do/plugins — NOT ~/.do/addins
January 4th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
Hey, I have been trying to get those new features to work for hours now. I have downloaded the trunk-david, and do-plugins, put them both in the ~/.do/plugins directory, it just won’t work. I even reinstalled gnome-do from source. Do you know what to do? (yes, I have tried restarting my computer)
January 4th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Collin, I have no idea what your problem is. Can you be more specific? Tell me what you are trying to do, what you think should happen, and what happens instead?
January 4th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
Also, Collin, use the plugins from http://do.davebsd.com/plugins/
January 5th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Yeah, I’m using the plugins from http://do.davebsd.com/plugins/ . I can’t get the plugins to work. That is my problem. I had them working before, then I tried to reinstall them under the plugin format (as opposed to addins) and they aren’t working.
January 12th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Would it be alright if I decreased the nice value on gnome do? Sometimes it gets written to swap, and takes a while to come up. Defeating the purpose somewhat.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Vadim, why are you asking me permission to do that? Do whatever you want on your machine(s). However, you might not want to do that until you’re running mono 1.2.6 or we’ve straightened out some of our memory usage issues (leaking icons and the Rhythmbox plugin is a hog).
January 12th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Because I don’t know if that’ll mess something up!
My mono was 1.2.4, it’s the latest one available in Ubuntu 7.10 repositories. Mono doesn’t provide Ubuntu .debs either, and I don’t want to install the .bin (because then I’ll forget how to get rid of it when I’ll need to. As already happened with other .bins :()
I don’t use Rhythmbox (Amarok/VLC instead), so I’ll go ahead and remove that.
January 15th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Nice update the select text feature is nice. It would be great if this can be connected to using your search engines in Firefox.
eg. select a movie title and search in IMDB.
January 15th, 2008 at 7:34 am
Hey there,
Helps a lot
First of all, very nice app man
So, on to the problem. Gnome-do always starts when the session starts, but sometimes the blue border just vanishes… Has anyone had the same problem?
I don’t know if I should be posting this here, it’s just that I don’t know where to xP
January 15th, 2008 at 7:44 am
I’m sorry for the doubt above. Solved it after a little search (:
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