It’s now official, Enso, a really awesome tool that integrates smoothly into your desktop and enables you to perform several otherwise boring actions by just using your keyboard in a very simple way (check Humanized website for a better description), has just been open sourced under a BSD-like license. It’s written in Python and uses Cairo for the rendering, and the end result is really neat.
One of the great news of this is that it’s going to work on Linux (and probably even BSD’s, though it requires compositing & a compositing manager for full functionnality, which is (afaik) only available on FreeBSD) very soon :). I’ve got it working on my laptop right now, after some python-xlib/pycairo/pygtk love ; it just now needs some more testing and polish before it goes live, but it’s gonna be great
Long life Enso!
March 6th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
Yay! This is exciting.
I think that cairo is available for others as well. http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=cairo&searchon=names&suite=all§ion=all&sourceid=mozilla-search
Although I haven’t worked w/ it before.
March 7th, 2008 at 1:30 am
holy crap, that looks incredibly cool
when I read the explanation of humanized.com I thought it’d be something like this http://www.launchy.net/
after watching the demo….WOW!
March 7th, 2008 at 6:14 am
That’s nice, but, uh, it’s for Windows.
Gnome Do seems to do the same thing though.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:59 am
Vadim: please read my post again
It’s for Windows, OSX __and__ Linux 
June 29th, 2008 at 8:33 am
Any More news about this? I’m currently trying to switch to Linux and one of the few things keeping me attached to windows is enso!
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