Hi,

Telescope surely can work on desktop, but it requires some slight midifications to work well with modern desktop window managers.

I just spent 10 minutes to build Telescope on my Ubuntu 12.04 and I got it work. But only with invoking from command line because binding to F5 key doens't work.

So, I need some time to fix key binding, to teach Telescope to use gnome’s background and may be to do some other fixes.

Currently I’m very busy but if you will ping me a bit later I will try to fix it and to build deb-package for ubuntu (and some installation script for Arch )