ENSO is open! Launch that app!

Humanized has released their keyboard interaction environment ENSO under a free BSD license. Even bigger news: a Linux version is coming!

ENSO is a simplified command line interface for launching applications and preform basic operations with simple commands. You hold down the CAPS-LOCK key, then start writing your command; and ENSO obeys. In recent months I have found ENSO the only application making working on Windows bearable.

I contacted Humanized a few months ago with feedback and feature requests. I also requested that they make a for-pay Linux version. The reply back then was not overwhelmingly positive, but they did not reject the possibility for a Linux version either. I was pleasantly surprised when I learned that they have set their code free, and teamed up with an amazingly helpful volunteer named Guillaume Seguin who have made the core for the Linux version already.

I hope ENSO Launcher for Linux will be as good as it is on Windows XP. I also hope that it will integrate well with KDE (and Gnome). It would be a shame if it did not!

I am really looking forward to getting ENSO on my Linux desktop!!

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