Gnome Do is an innovative launcher for the GNOME desktop environment similar to Quicksilver available on "Mac OS X" . Gnome Do tries to provide best of Keyboard driven interface(providing short-cut keys and command terminals) and cursor driven interface(menus , attractive buttons and icons), thus making it useful to both novice and experienced users. It is extensible and supports number of
Miguel pointed me to GNOME Do
I played with 'do' for a few days now and it really is a cool mono based puppy.
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GNOME Do (Do) is an intelligent launcher tool that makes performing common tasks on your computer simple and efficient. GNOME Do is inspired by Quicksilver Mac and GNOME Launch Box.