David Siegel - The Plenitude of Arboreal Beauty

Athrun cooked up a nice Banshee plugin for Do based on my Rhythmbox one. It looks very promising. If you’re interested, go give it a spin and report any problems to Athrun!

I’d like to respond to some early criticism I’ve seen of GNOME Do.
“Why is it written in a Windows-specific language? It would have better for them to write it in Python.”

I get the idea that most of the people saying this simply don’t understand what they’re talking about. Yes, Do plugins have the extension “.dll”, [...]

As more people are using GNOME Do, I keep getting nagged about how GNOME Do doesn’t do this or that. This is exactly why GNOME Do has a plugin system for adding to the items and actions GNOME Do provides. For example, many people have said “Launchy/Quicksilver/Katapult/my mom has a Google search action, why doesn’t [...]

Here’s an overview of the browse feature I’m working on for GNOME Do. As you might expect, it works a lot like Quicksilver’s browse mode, except it’s not as good (yet!). One minor improvement over Quicksilver is that in the case of the Rhythmbox addin, albums and artists are first-order items in Do’s universe, which [...]

The Rhythmbox addin for GNOME Do just got a whole lot sexier.

Search by album name.

Search by artist.

I’m working on some amazing new features for GNOME Do. Currently, I have two plugins that index Evolution contacts and Pidgin buddies respectively. The cool thing is that these plugins are able to merge contact information from Evolution and Pidgin into single contacts in Do. For example, if I have a contact for “John Doe” [...]

As of this post, GNOME Do draws most of its windows as splash screens in order to avoid some bugs in the way focus stealing and window raising is handled. Because of this, when GNOME Do windows are brought to the front, they are drawn abruptly and a bit blandly. If you’re using Compiz Fusion [...]