Confirmed in 10.04 LTS. Typing "home" causes lots of hard drive activity and the waiting mouse indicator for about 20 seconds, then ... nothing happens.
Typing "~" instead of "home" seems to work (so far). ArTaX is correct that killing and restarting gnome-do also fixes the problem. Accordingly, my workaround for this (and other gnome-do issues) is to assign the <Super>+space key binding to a perl script that kills and restarts gnome-do every time I call it.
As a general observation, it is these little annoying bugs that accumulate workarounds which kill Ubuntu's viability as a mainstream OS. I love Gnome-Do, and I love Ubuntu, but I find myself cursing OSS every time one of these bugs manifests and then fails to be addressed in a timely fashion (i.e., faster than 1.5 years). I know that isn't necessarily helpful here, but if Ubuntu is going to be marketed as "easier to use," these little things -- like being able to quickly open your home directory -- have to be taken seriously.
Confirmed in 10.04 LTS. Typing "home" causes lots of hard drive activity and the waiting mouse indicator for about 20 seconds, then ... nothing happens.
Typing "~" instead of "home" seems to work (so far). ArTaX is correct that killing and restarting gnome-do also fixes the problem. Accordingly, my workaround for this (and other gnome-do issues) is to assign the <Super>+space key binding to a perl script that kills and restarts gnome-do every time I call it.
As a general observation, it is these little annoying bugs that accumulate workarounds which kill Ubuntu's viability as a mainstream OS. I love Gnome-Do, and I love Ubuntu, but I find myself cursing OSS every time one of these bugs manifests and then fails to be addressed in a timely fashion (i.e., faster than 1.5 years). I know that isn't necessarily helpful here, but if Ubuntu is going to be marketed as "easier to use," these little things -- like being able to quickly open your home directory -- have to be taken seriously.