I've just tried Gnome Do. I haven't tried the plugins so far.
Seems to work very well with files or URLs. Same as gnome-open or "go".
Actually not the same. The latter 2 commands handle incomplete URLs as
well, "go http://"; opens a Firefox window (with an error message, but
it's there), "go mailto:"; an empty email. Gnome Do does not seem to like
these.
Commands are a different story. First I tried to start a Midnight
Commander. I typed Super-space, then mc. First it asked me whether I
want to set Evolution as my default email client. Nope. But it opened it
anyway.
Similar story with my CLI integer calculator ogc, installed in /usr/bin.
It opened an OpenOffice Write document instead.
This time I did not give up and tried it again and hit the down-arrow
after typing ogc. And voilá there it was in a drop-down menu!!! But
selecting it did not help, it was not started. I tried mc as well, no
success. Gnome Do seems to have problems with character-based programs.
"go" on the other hand...
Anyway, looking through the plugins, I found some potential winners like
the Firefox bookmark search. :-)
Best regards
Gergely
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