{"id":503,"date":"2008-07-20T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T05:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=503"},"modified":"2008-07-20T23:00:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T06:00:17","slug":"whats-on-your-quickstart-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=503","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s on your &#8220;quickstart bar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to use a hopefully somewhat generic term; or whatever you call that thing that sits at the edge of your screen and has icons for stuff that you launch a lot? Not the menu(s), the single-click launches. Or if you roll that way, what do you have hotkeys for?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s mine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/en-US\/firefox\/\">Firefox<\/a> &#8211; been using it since ~2004 (when it changed name from Firebird)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/evolution\/\">Evolution<\/a> &#8211; not a lot of thought in this; it&#8217;s Ubuntu&#8217;s standard, and it does the job\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pidgin.im\/\">Pidgin<\/a> &#8211; I used it when it was called Gaim\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liferea.sourceforge.net\/\">Liferea<\/a> &#8211; Internet news hasn&#8217;t been the same since I started with the feeds\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/emacs\/\">Emacs<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t type well enough to use vi (and I use SLIME + SBCL)\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eclipse.org\/\">Eclipse<\/a> &#8211; with CDT plugins\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kdevelop.org\/\">KDevelop<\/a> &#8211; an alternative to Eclipse, a bit nicer for automake stuff\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rapidsvn.tigris.org\/\">RapidSVN<\/a> &#8211; only just realised it&#8217;s a rabbit with an eyepatch! I thought it was some sort of comet in space&#8230;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GNOME_Terminal\">gnome-terminal<\/a> &#8211; because one always needs a command line\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/amarok.kde.org\/\">Amarok<\/a> &#8211; pretty near best-in-class for organising &#038; playing music\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/tomboy\/\">Tomboy<\/a> &#8211; for the to-do lists which never shrink&#8230;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;to use a hopefully somewhat generic term; or whatever you call that thing that sits at the edge of your screen and has icons for stuff that you launch a lot? Not the menu(s), the single-click launches. Or if you roll that way, what do you have hotkeys for? Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}