# Schneegans/Fly-Pie

:pie: Fly-Pie is an innovative marking menu written as a GNOME Shell extension.

Repository: https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/fly-pie
Homepage: http://schneegans.github.io/news/2021/12/02/flypie10
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: gnome-shell-extension, gnome-shell, marking-menu, pie-menu, gjs
Last push: 2026-03-15T19:28:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 72, release rhythm 63, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3391, "days_push": 171, "days_rel": 171, "gap_med": 63, "n_releases_24m": 6}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1313, forks 30 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:20.379007+00:00)

## What it is
Fly-Pie is a GNOME Shell extension that provides marking (pie) menus opened via keyboard shortcuts, mouse gestures, or touch input. It can launch applications, simulate hotkeys, open URLs, and paste clipboard items through radial menus with point-and-click, marking, and turbo selection modes.

## Use cases
- launch applications from a radial pie menu on GNOME
- simulate keyboard shortcuts with mouse gestures
- open URLs quickly from a marking menu
- paste recent clipboard items via a menu
- use a launcher designed for mouse-first one-handed workflows
- add touch-screen and tablet-friendly menus to GNOME Shell

## When to choose
- you use GNOME Shell on Linux and want a gesture-driven radial menu launcher
- you mostly work with one hand on the mouse rather than keyboard-only
- you want touch, pen, and multi-cursor support for menus on Wayland or X11

## When to avoid
- you need a keyboard-only launcher (tools like kupfer fit better)
- you are not using GNOME Shell
- you want a cross-platform menu tool - consider the author's successor Kando instead

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: gui, workflow-automation, developer-tools
- domain: desktop-applications, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: gnome-shell-extension, marking-menu, pie-menu, launcher, gjs, radial-menu, automation, linux, gnome, desktop

## Member repositories
- Schneegans/Fly-Pie (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.379007+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:48:49.229156+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Schneegans/Fly-Pie (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:20.379007+00:00, sha e8cb864528ac)
  - homepage: http://schneegans.github.io/news/2021/12/02/flypie10 (fetched 2026-08-29T12:07:43.303261+00:00, sha ec92881b469d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.