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Circular App Launcher `Gnome Pie` 0.6.7 Gets New Clipboard Slice Group, Other Changes

Gnome Pie 0.6.7 was released recently with a new experimental feature: clipboard slice group, along with other changes.


Gnome Pie Application Launcher Sees New Release

Gnome Pie 0.6 (and 0.6.1 quickly after, to fix a nasty bug) was released recently, bringing new features such as half and quarter pies, a new simple theme along with other interesting changes and bug fixes.


For those not familiar with Gnome Pie, this is an application launcher inspired by a World of Warcraft addon called OPie.

The app consists of multiple "pies", each being triggered by a keyboard shortcut or mouse button you set. Each pie has its own role: applications, bookmarks, main menu, multimedia (play/pause/previous/next), a pie that allows you to control the focused window (maximize, close, etc.) and so on.

Updates: ffDiaporama 1.2, GNOME Pie 0.5, SMPlayer 0.7.1

ffdiaporama

ffDiaporama is a multi-platform application for creating videos from photos or movie clips. It supports various transition effects, titles/annotations, music and more.

Updates: Audacious 3.2, Gnome Pie 0.4, Xnoise 0.1.31

Audacious 3.2


audacious 3.2

Audacious 3.2 has finally been released. You probably already know what's new since Audacious 3.2 beta was already available in our unstable PPA, but here's the changelog again, just in case:

Gnome Pie 0.3 Released With Mouse Bindings, More

Gnome Pie

Gnome Pie, an application launcher with some really cool effects, has reached version 0.3. The new version brings a much requested feature: mouse bindings, so you can bind "pies" to any mouse button. To assign a mouse button to a pie, open the Gnome Pie settings and on the Pies tab, click on the "Command" field next to a pie, then click the mouse button you want to assign for that pie.

Gnome Pie 0.2 Released

Gnome Pie, a cool launcher we've talked about a few weeks ago has reached version 0.2. The new version lets you control the "pies" using the keyboard: holding ALT, a number is displayed on each slice (and if there are too many slices, letters are assigned too) and pressing that number launches the corresponding application / action:

GNOME Pie

Gnome Pie: A Cool New Visual Application Launcher

Gnome Pie is an application inspired by a World of Warcraft addon called OPie, that tries to offer a different way of launching applications in Gnome.

Gnome Pie

Gnome Pie