Once in a while, someone sees GNOME Do and screams bloody murder that I’ve “stolen” something from Quicksilver or that I’ve “cloned” or “forked” Quicksilver and simply renamed it and that I’m trying to hide the similarities. It’s not enough, these people cry, that I mention Quicksilver on Do’s homepage and discuss the technical differences [...]
It has been 41 days since we released GNOME Do 0.4.2, and today I’m honored to present GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″. Without further ado, here are the main improvements and new features, accompanied by plenty of sexy screenshots (click for larger images).
First off, the Open with… action has been re-enabled!
The biggest new feature [...]
After spending eight months on GNOME Do, I gave a brief presentation (followed by a great, not-so-brief Q&A session) to an auditorium full of Computer Science students and faculty. In the presentation, I discuss five “rules” explicitly and implicitly imposed in undergraduate Computer Science coursework that I had to break in order to create GNOME [...]
My name is David Siegel and I'm a student at the University of Pennsylvania, currently studying Computer Science and Philosophy. I'm trying to share what I learn.