jorge's stompbox

I was at lunch the other day and Ken Simon, a sysadmin at Oakland University. He was mentioning how the students were on spring break and he needed a quick and dirty project to work on.

So I told him that he could probably implement the blueprint I had written a month or so ago for a Launchpad plugin for GNOME Do. I wrote the spec because as I use Do more and more I tend to want everything I work in to just be in Do because it's a fast way to work.

As Ken explains, a few hours later he had something working. Behold:

Do is one of those applications that you need to see to really "get it". So I've put together a screencast of Ken's Launchpad Plugin for GNOME Do (Ogg Video) so you can check out how it works.

We will be merging this plugin into the official plugins branch, but in the meantime you can grab the code here. If you don't want to build from source, snag the .dll from here and copy it into ~/.local/share/gnome-do/plugins then restart GNOME Do. You need the version of GNOME Do from the official Personal Package Archive.

Also, GNOME Do now has learning enabled in trunk. This means that as you use Do, over time it learns what things you tend to use the most. So if you keep using "Launchpad -> 123456 -> Bug Number" then the Bug Number item will start to drift to the top of the list. If your friend is a translator and keeps doing "Launchpad -> Russian -> Release Translations" then the translation item will start to move to the top of his list. As you can imagine, after Do learns the way you work, you become real fast at getting to where you want to be.

Thanks to Ken Simon for implementing this, and David Siegel for answering his questions on the list. I am finding myself more efficient with this plugin and the learning feature. Enjoy!