Comments on: Re-spinning famous quotes: Linux and Cancer.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 May 2009 15:34:32 +0000

There is a bug in the current release (2.1.2) of Launchy that causes any application with command-line arguments included in it's *.desktop file to be opened in gedit. Since reading this post I did try to use Launchy, but in it's current state it's no replacement for Gnome-do. Thread @ Sourceforge

By: Tel

Tel — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:13:12 +0000

For what it’s worth, I think that Linux distros should be pushing hard to include as much Java as possible and I think Sun has to be respected for (slowly) making this possible.

The fact that several competing Java implementations exist is also a very healthy thing, and all told the language is just better thought out than C# IMHO. Hopefully IBM get behind the whole linux/java combo in a big way (would be nice to see), and hopefully it all moves to GPL in the long run.

By: Alan Bell

Alan Bell — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:28:51 +0000

I used AWN as a dock for a bit. Eventually I got fed up with it and went back to a Gnome panel. I don’t really like the way the dock obscures the bottom of maximised windows and I never really found a configuration I liked better than the default Ubuntu setup.

By: Venko

Venko — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:41:10 +0000

@Alan

That still leaves me with a lack of a dock. I’ve tried others before the one that comes with Gnome Do and unfortunately they’ve proven very unstable. What would be awesome would be if someone rewrote Gnome Do without a Mono dependency like has happened with Tomboy.

By: Alan Lord

Alan Lord — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:50:12 +0000

@Venko, I haven't used it myself but have heard some good things about Launchy. Have you tried that?

By: Venko

Venko — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:48:20 +0000

I agree with you completely. Mono is a scary piece of work and one language that I refuse to ever work with. The real shame is that I’ve yet to find an alternative for Gnome Do (with Docky) which means I have Mono running on my system!