Comments on: GNOME Do to get more kick-ass than Chuck Norris

By: dRewsus

dRewsus — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:07:00 +0000

Im curious, once (Just) Do comes out, will I have to abandon the gnome-do PPA and add a new one, or will they continue to use the old one? I doubt they will keep the same one, or the same name for the package. Thats pretty silly, actually. But, I’d just like to not have to change anything. I’m lazy….

By: dRewsus

dRewsus — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 00:04:00 +0000

Bruce Lee. Just sits quietly in the corner. Even dead, he could murder them all and they know it. But he lets them get the attention. Doesn’t bother him one bit, cuz THEY know. They know.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 20:35:00 +0000

I’m just throwing it out there… Vala has all the benefits of C# and it compiles to C code.
Great to see the performance increase in Do after this rewrite though. I really hate the delay sometimes when typing in commands in the Do interface. It has made me disable almost all plugins.

By: OMG! First look at the new look â€˜Doâ€™ launcher

OMG! First look at the new look â€˜Doâ€™ launcher — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:53:57 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 14:07:00 +0000

It’s about experience. They have experience with C#. Plus there are many reasons to avoid using unmanaged code; memory corruption, memory leak being some of these. Obviously when the benefits of these new languages outweigh the older languages is when they’ll achieve widespread adoption.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:33:00 +0000

Python is great, but C# is much more expressive than you probably think. I think a lot of people think “C# is like Java, so it isn’t very expressive”. But C# is much more expressive than Java. Here are some examples:

Quit a Gtk application when the main window is closed:
window.Destroyed += delegate { Application.Quit (); };

Search a collection of cardboard boxes for boxes shorter than 5m, and order the results by width:
boxes.FindAll (b => b.Height b.Width);

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:24:00 +0000

Python and C# are my two favorite languages. In my experience, statically-typed, explicitly-typed languages like C# are what save you the development and design pain for any reasonably large project. Having a wonderful IDE like MonoDevelop with features like Intellisense also saves you a lot of frustration.

One of the reasons you gave for choosing python is that python is easy to write plugins in. This is true, which is why Docky allows you to write plugins in python over a dbus interface. I’m pretty sure Gnome Do is heading down this path as well, which will give you the best of both worlds :)

By: xangua

xangua — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:09:00 +0000

Kupfer, a light launcher app, uses python if you are interested http://kaizer.se/wiki/kupfer/

By: nickless

nickless — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:09:00 +0000

Since Do won’t open my Pidgin/Skype Contacts anymore when I type their names, I pretty much stopped using it. But because this was a design desicion they made, my hope is basically that they reconsider.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:38:00 +0000

You’re all demented. Writing it in C makes it powerful, and if the programmer is even half sane then the code is small and clean with a tiny footprint…and of course it shouldn’t be too difficult to port across platforms. (Not that it is with Mono, but the point is that pure C is better than this .Net crap.)

Python isn’t crap. If you think it is, then you haven’t used it. That is all.

By: Martini1179

Martini1179 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:37:00 +0000

I agree. I use the dock as well as the program integrated program launcher on a daily basis. GNOME-Do (in dock mode) was an awesome app, and they shouldn’t have made radical changes to a winning formula.

The argument that this was somehow necessary because the app was “broke” holds no water. They could have rewritten the code from scratch with the same dock + program launcher using a different package, with the caveat that the “original” GNOME-Do would no longer be in active development.

But the “logical” thing was to split them up, start developing Docky first, then introduce a separate “Do” several months later, all while claiming that there will be “some integration between the two” at a future date.

But I guess that four left turns also make a right.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:54:00 +0000

Not really.
C# is definitely better for this, Python is a pain.

By: mystilleef

mystilleef — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:19:00 +0000

I think Python will save them a lot of development and design pain for what they want to do.

By: mystilleef

mystilleef — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:15:00 +0000

What are they compared to C#?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:46:00 +0000

Python is horrible…
C# is definitely a good choice.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:22:00 +0000

OMG…you must be british (inside joke with my brit cousin ;)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:22:00 +0000

but python has its limits and dependencies…C# is better for what they are trying to do….
btw, I am an avid python user but C# just has that extra ‘KAPOWA’ for certain tasks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:19:00 +0000

LOL…nuf said

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:08:00 +0000

sorry, google does seem to get it right (gotta love it!!)…weelll, I…um…i really don’t know how to say this….well, i used bing (it was only for a day…im back to the light now)….you try “binging” your project or whatever “do”….sorry for the misunderstanding, please blame it on good ole’ microsoft.
awkward, eh?

By: d0od

d0od — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:45:00 +0000

Funny you should mention Kupfer, i tested it yesterday along with Do and Launchy for a ‘review’ piece.