A demo of GNOME Do from fall 2007, showcasing this innovative application launcher and productivity tool for the GNOME desktop environment.
GNOME Do was my senior thesis in Computer Science, and it's where I met my Glide co-founder, Jason Smith. We worked on it together because I wanted to use Linux, but I loved the launcher Quicksilver on Mac and didn't really feel like I could live without it. So I decided to build an open source version.
At one point, GNOME Do became one of the largest open source projects in the world by number of contributors. We had over 50 contributors at the time.
This keyboard-driven launcher made Linux desktop interaction much faster and more efficient. This demo shows how it worked and why it became popular with power users who wanted the Quicksilver experience on Linux.
