One of the great things about Linux is that there are a number of options for almost everything that you can hope to achieve. A very slick application menu is the GnoMenu. GnoMenu is a highly customizable application launcher. Let us see what all it can do.
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Anybody up to writing good directory software?
Tue, 2007-02-20 11:17 — David JonathanSince the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Is better education the key to finding better software?
Sat, 2007-03-03 03:25 — Edward RusselI read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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thommcn
2 years 21 weeks 2 days 22 hours ago
nice alternative to Gnome Do
It's behavior is a lot like the menu in KDE but can be temperamental with occasional crashes but looks promising.
Mr. Psychopath
2 years 21 weeks 1 day 17 hours ago
GnoMenu > Gnome-Do
Regardless of the whole Mono debate, I have to say I really don't like Gnome-Do. Bloated, slow, somewhat garish looking. The extension ideas were interesting, but really AWN has more interesting bits to it in the 0.4 release.
GnoMenu is nice because it reminds me vaguely of the old Windows Start Button, yet is far more customizable by any stretch of the word.