Today, mama said that I need to send a fascimile message home-- see my daughter was admitted to the hospital and needed some paper works for my insurance to clear in the hospital. I thought, okay, I should encode it and have it printed in the cafe downstairs.
I got used to using shortcuts in Windows. Even back in XP when I installed stardock and then Launchy, that was pre-win 7 days. It became much easier in Win 7 when I can just type it on the space provided after hitting the windows sign. (Pardon for the very layman term, I'm no IT person).
Anyway, I was on Ubuntu (almost all the weekend!) with Mr. Drew and I thought there should be a shortcut on how I can access applications in Linux. Surely, if windows have it, Linux will have more! lol!
So after the sending the message home, I went to check out Launchy for Linux. Again, I was not let down. It has! Well, first, I never really thought that it was open-source... So there I was, summoning the "sudo apt-get" thing for linux. I feel like I am a geek when I type that on the terminal! lol.
After that, I posted something on my Facebook wall. Lo, and behold, my Ubunutu-guru replied. There's Gnome-do. And he said has way better plugins. I was like, hmmmm...
Okay, hit google. Find Gnome-do. Silly me, its in the Synaptic Package Manager! And I do not have to summon the terminal to do it. System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager.
I keyed in Gnome-do, and Hit apply. I figured out Docky layout. And here's what I got:
So, verdict? Gnome-do has so much more to offer compared to Launchy.
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