gnome-hud
Unity like HUD menu for the GNOME Desktop Environment using rofi menu. (by hardpixel)
Drill
Search files without indexing, but fast crawling (by yatima1460)
| gnome-hud | Drill | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 5 | |
| 120 | 271 | |
| 1.7% | 1.1% | |
| 1.8 | 9.0 | |
| over 3 years ago | 11 months ago | |
| Python | C# | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
gnome-hud
Posts with mentions or reviews of gnome-hud.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-16.
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Opportunistic, pragmatic Pop!
Don't underestimate the appeal of small utilities. The elementary appcenter has nice little tools like this or this, and Mint has warpinator. Unity used to have some nice little helpers, too. For instance a HUD. Lets make a list of tools (or browse OMGUbuntu) and pick the top 20. Maybe includin this. Make them available on Pop and make the top 5 part of the default installation.
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Audacity Aquired by Muse Group
If you’re using the applications on Linux you can use HUDs like https://github.com/hardpixel/gnome-hud
- System76 Developing “Cosmic” Desktop Environment
Drill
Posts with mentions or reviews of Drill.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-16.
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Your preferred DE?
For file searches you might give this a try: https://github.com/yatima1460/Drill
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Opportunistic, pragmatic Pop!
Fix desktop search. The best attempt at a nice and convenient desktop search was the long forgotten Beagle Project. Instead of coming up with a whole new DE, it would IMO be much more useful to fix things that really don't work well in Gnome (or Budgie). One of these things is the desktop search. The good news is there are pretty good search utilities like Recoll and Drill, they just are not integrated into a combined view. Both could be combined into the Synapse launcher or as a Search Provider.
- what method does pop launcher uses to index files/folders?
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I'm looking for a good search tool.
fsearch and drill are fairly similar. The Drill author wrote it because they missed Everything on Linux and fsearch also notes Everything as its inspiration. These are the 2 that come closest to Everything.
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If you can't find what you saved, there is no point to any of this.
Gonna throw drill into the ring. It is explocitly not an indexed searcher. It drills through all filesystems accessible to your machine. If indexed searchers fail you, you will surely find it with drill if you know at least a part of the file's name.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing gnome-hud and Drill you can also consider the following projects:
cosmic - GNOME Shell extension. See cosmic-epoch for COSMIC Epoch
dextool - Suite of C/C++ tooling built on LLVM/Clang
workspaces - Workspaces app for linux elementaryos gtk
warpinator - Share files across the LAN
TabFS - 🗄 Mount your browser tabs as a filesystem.