A programmable GTK+ QuickSilver clone for software developers.

Alpha

QuickSilver and Gnome Do are nice and all, but tools like this are just begging to be easily extensible.

Executor does a great job of this on Windows, but those of us in Gnome/GTK+ land are left wanting.

MED will address this gap.

(N.B. The name was derived from Gnome Do: "Gnome Do" -> "Dwarf Executor" -> "Midget Execution Device". I have nothing against little people. Honest.)

• Python 2.7+ (may work with as early as 2.4, but untested)
• PyGTK

No packaging available yet, so just clone the source repository:

git clone git://github.com/thomaslee/midget-execution-device.git

Then create a .medrc file in your $HOME directory:

# /home/tom/.medrc

commands.add("terminal", invoke, "gnome-terminal", "--working-directory=${args[0]}")
commands.add("google", invoke, "chromium-browser", "http://www.google.com/?q=${u(' '.join(args))}")

Don't forget to set up a system keyboard shortcut appropriate to your Desktop Environment to make it easier to open MED!

Once you've created your .medrc, you can use these commands within MED.

terminal will open a new gnome-terminal window in the given directory:

terminal /var/www

google will perform a Google search using the given keywords:

google github

.medrc is a fully fledged Python script, so you can write your own actions too:

def cmd_print(context, args):
    print args[0]

commands.add("say", cmd_print, "${' '.join(args)}")

The "say" command will now print its arguments to the command line. Try it out!

say hello world

Some creep added magic to support:

MATHEMAGIC You can calculate basic maths using =MATHS, e.g. =123+456 (this is just evalled using python)

Command execution You can launch an application that is executable on your path by just typing it in, anything after it will be arguments

This software is licensed under the terms of the GPL v3 License.

Please log defects and feature requests using the issue tracker on github.

midget-execution-device was written by Tom Lee.

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