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Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

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[REQUEST] Gnome-Pie launcher

Here's a description quoted from the article I refer to below:

GNOME Pie is a keyboard based application launcher: you press a key combination (which is fully editable) and an animated circular launcher – called a Pie – appears. Using your mouse you can launch an application by clicking on a button or shortcut within the ‘Pie’. Shortcuts are called ‘Slices’.

As with the inspiration behind the app – the ‘OPie’ radial add-on for World of Warcraft - GNOME Pie lets you add, edit and assign your own ‘Pies’ and ‘Slices’. Want a radial launcher for your game gantry only? GNOME Pie lets you do it.

‘Pies’ can be added, removed or edited; and the majority of slices within those pies can be edited too. This means you can add your own applications to the launcher and remove those you don’t like.

The keyboard shortcuts are also editable, but take care to check that any you set don’t conflict with existing system shortcuts.

Article: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/09/gnom … -launcher/

The project is hosted on Github. Here's a list off the dependencies:

• gtk2

• cairo

• libappindicator (AUR)

• libgee

• libxml2

• libxtst

• gnome-menus

• vala

• cmake

• libunique

I hope someone can make a working PKGBUILD for this, because it certainly looks awesome!

Last edited by Unia (2011-09-28 14:11:28)

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DerFlob

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2011-09-18

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Re: [REQUEST] Gnome-Pie launcher

There seems to be one in the AUR. Have you tried it?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52732

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

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Re: [REQUEST] Gnome-Pie launcher

Oops, it wasn't there when I checked yesterday :\ it failed for me however, but I have edited the PKGBUILD and now it works; see the AUR page. Sorry!

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Unia

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Re: [REQUEST] Gnome-Pie launcher

Also contacted the dev of this application if he could remove the libappindicator dependency. Guess I wasn't the only one: it's patched!

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If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres