Re: [Usability] GNOME Command line interface

[SzG <sub o gero gmail com>]

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