DO it!!! Yes, go and DOwnload DO 0.8! 30 January, 2009
29 January 2009 will be another great day for our free software desktops, GNOME Do 0.8 is released!
This is a fantastic release: it’s not just few bugfixes, it’s much much much more! Jason Smith did an amazing job rewriting the whole graphical interface code, allowing Do to feature shiny animated interfaces… for all your tastes!
Send to pastebin, imageshack, manage your music collection, access files, browse google docs, open conversations, add bookmarks, control your jedi lightsaber… EVERYTHING: just with one simple key!
GNOME Do 0.8 will dramatically change the way you interact with your desktop, saving a lot of time for better moments with your girlfriend 
(or your lightsaber!) I would really love to see GNOME Do or something similar in our GNOME 3.0 shell. This is the key, the Do key.
While I mentioned Jason for the graphical part, I can’t forget David Siegel, Alex Launi, Chris Halse Rogers and every contributor!!! They did an amazing job, they *are* an amazing team.
So, that’s all folks: go and spread the voice
It’s time to rock on for 1.0!
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30 January, 2009 alle 0:29
[...] what others have to say! y en [...]
30 January, 2009 alle 0:45
[...] Alex is always entertaining. Check out Peng’s thoughts. Kalle has something to add. Mike joins the party. Cimi likes it too. [...]
30 January, 2009 alle 1:06
Are there Ubuntu packages for this new version already?
I tried the PPA, but it instaled version 0.6
30 January, 2009 alle 1:38
I have it already!
great stuff!!
@Rafael
on intrepid i have used
http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-testers/ubuntu intrepid main
in my source.list file and i have installed 0.7.99 … try it!
30 January, 2009 alle 1:45
@An3a
Thanks! but, it *ALMOST* worked, it’s just lacking the GPG key now…
ok, I think I found it:
https://launchpad.net/~do-testers/+archive/ppa
30 January, 2009 alle 1:51
Still, no dice… it’s on 0.6
30 January, 2009 alle 1:51
EXCELLENT!!! I love the Do
30 January, 2009 alle 3:02
0.8 ppa for hardy?
please.
30 January, 2009 alle 4:39
What is with the shameless copying of Mac OS X’s dock? Sure, functionality can be unknowingly duplicated, but graphics?
I’m talking about the little blue lights beneath the app icons which indicate that app is running. Ripped straight from Mac OS X. Why not make it a bar? Or a glowing? Or an arrow? Something original. Anything.
It honestly angers me that the developers of this project don’t care enough to actually make it their own.
30 January, 2009 alle 5:46
[...] for some more great plugins, and for helping me with some c# code I was writing for a plugin, and Cimi and Kalle for translations and much new insight. There’s so many more people associated [...]
30 January, 2009 alle 7:35
GNOME Do is really fine… but C#… so i won’t use it.
30 January, 2009 alle 7:37
@Art
You didn’t use it did you? The dot changes color depending on urgency status and has the ability to display multiple dots with multiple windows. I also went through a LOT of revisions on that indicator before settling on this one.
30 January, 2009 alle 10:23
@Art
I agree with you that way too much Linux software is poor copies of osx software, for example AWN. But Do does the exact opposite, it innovates, and thats what open source does best. Great release!!
30 January, 2009 alle 12:30
nothing bad with copying ideas from apple (especially the good ones), but sometimes it seems to me that the only purpose of gtk/gnome developers is to blindly copy all the stuff that they spew out. gnome do, the file chooser’s collapse/expand button, the file system bookmarks, the lock/unlock settings buttons, the omnipresent “+” and “-” buttons are examples of this (there are more, but i didn’t mean this to be a comprehensive list). in general, i like gnome more than i do mac os x, but come on, i would like to see some more original ideas and less of the assumption that whatever apple does must be oh so perfect and must be cloned (which i certainly don’t agree with). thanks
30 January, 2009 alle 16:03
@anon:
dude, check out the code before ranting. Its pretty much nothing like the OSX Dock - in usability and design terms. It just looks a little similar, but really its quite a different beasty.
That said, yeah, we should be innovating more. You’re barking up the wrong tree here though. GNOME is people, come on in and innovate…
30 January, 2009 alle 16:23
@DBO
I haven’t tried this release, no, but I’ve used GNOME-Do before. It’s good, though often I’d go a few hours between uses, after which presumably mono gets paged out of memory, and when I try to access gnome-do, there’s a considerable delay. This frankly negates the whole point of gnome-do - it would have been quicker for me to use the traditional menu system.
I digress. So, the little blue light changes colours, and can reproduce, representing the number of windows open. That’s fine, and sounds like a good idea. But that doesn’t change the fact that the original blue light is remarkably similar to OS X’s dock’s. Does it? It’s not as if you independently came up with the idea to represent a running application with a glowing blue light, is it? Any other changes/enhancements are irrelevant to this fact.
30 January, 2009 alle 21:37
@Art
And I am not an artist. Get me a mockup of something better and be helpful. Sitting there complaining about the lack of inovation does not motivate people to innovate. It motivates me to blindly ignore everything you say in the future because last time I saw you complain you offered no insight on how to make it better. I really like when people tell me what they thing is wrong and how to improve it. I really dislike when people just whine without trying to be constructive.
31 January, 2009 alle 2:58
Same with Michael, C#, and it’s not good for “really” free desktops
31 January, 2009 alle 12:59
Thank you so much! I never knew about Gnome-Do until now. It makes my desktop almost perfect!
31 January, 2009 alle 16:46
@Cimi: it would be great to see Do-like functionality incorporated in Gnome 3, not just on the desktop, but also at the application level. Programs like the Gimp or Inkscape use a lot of keyboard shortcuts that may be hard to memorize all-at-once. Using the Do-metaphor *within* the application will let you invoke functions quickly, and discover keyboard shortcuts in the process.
I don’t have anything against Mono, but for Do to become an integral part of the Gnome Desktop, I think it would almost have to be part of GTK+, because it needs to communicate with other parts of the interface to know which functions are applicable given the situation (it makes no sense to list ‘Crop to selection’ as an option when nothing has been selected).
31 January, 2009 alle 17:06
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31 January, 2009 alle 17:42
What is the difference to gimmie?
2 February, 2009 alle 0:42
@DBO
I don’t mean to bring you down. I did give some (admittedly small) suggestions:
“Why not make it a bar? Or a glowing? Or an arrow?”
A coloured bar is easier to make than a blurred light, artistically.
But hey, what do I know, I’m just some nobody on the internet you’ll never meet. I refer you to http://xkcd.com/386/ .
3 February, 2009 alle 21:54
I’m more surprised that people keep trying to copy the look and feel of the OSX dock in GNOME, when usability-wise, the dock is one of OSX’s worst features. http://www.asktog.com/columns/044top10docksucks.html
7 February, 2009 alle 3:46
[...] you want to find more more about this release, please check out David, Jason, Alex, Cimi, Kalle or Michael’s blogs. To start using the new Do, add Do’s PPA to your software [...]
11 February, 2009 alle 8:07
Where can I get some documentation on the new 0.8’s plugin API..
the new one is awesome, bit I prefer the good ol’ classic interface, I might use docky in the next version..
Its just my feeling that, the classic interface let me get rid of the mouse, but the docky makes use of it!
12 March, 2009 alle 22:37
using it on intrepid, ubuntustudio64, and I have to say:
docky just rocks!
4 May, 2009 alle 5:33
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