Do more with Do

Looking at that title you’d think I was typo’ing the name of the mega caffeine drink from the Pepsi company, but you’d be wrong. What I am referring to is GNOME Do, a wonderful little time saver that I’ve written about before. If you thought GNOME Do was great before, you should check out the brand new version 0.5. Called  “The Fighting 0.5″, they’ve made several additions that make this already killer tool even more of a Must Have.

They’ve changed the preferences window and added a plugin manager that will let you browse, install and disable plugins right from the Do preferences window. There’s also wiki pages about each plugin, both the official plugins and the community created plugins, and you can configure plugins without having to dig through the Configuration Editor (gconf) any more. That alone is guaranteed to save you time in setting your computer up to work how you want it to work.

David Siegel tells us that they’ve fixed “tons of bugs” and there are even things that didn’t quite make it in time for this release so they’re looking at released in GNOME Do 0.5.1 “within a few weeks.” David includes a number of screenshots in his announcement plus he goes into a few more details than I wanted to duplicate here so go read his post.

For Ubuntu users who want to grab this update there is a Launchpad PPA you can use to get it even faster.

Thanks to everyone who worked on The Fighting 0.5, and big thanks to Jorge Castro for letting me know this update was available. Now if you’ll excuse me I want to go play with, er, check out all the new features.