So I spent a few hours installing a few Gnome goodies. First, I found a few portage overlays and installed nautilus-sendto and nautilus-share. Nautilus-share is especially cool since it lets users add folders that he/she wants to share over samba. Nautilus-sendto allows you to right-click on a file and send it to an email recipient or a gaim buddy. I am going to look at the source some time and try to add some functionality to it. In Windows, I use the Sendto command a lot to send files to notepad to view. I sorely miss this option in Linux. There are times when a file does not have a mime-type in Gnome and I want to view it’s contents. Other times, the mime type points to an app that I don’t want to open (say OpenOffice) because I just need a quick view of the file.

I also got gnome-launch-box to install after modifying a few lines of the source. This is a pretty slick application. Following a post on this page you can bind it to a set of Keys and bring it up at will. This acts similarily to the Windows keystrokc Win+R to call up the “Run… Dialog”. Gnome-launch-box is way cooler then the Run dialog in Windows. It can read your mozilla bookmarks and history and files in your home directory.

Of course it is only at version 0.1 so it crashes a bunch and it is quite slow while scanning for files. It could really use integration with beagle to speed up searching.