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Very cool! I've been hoping something like this would get active development again, since Launchy basically died. Alfred's been pretty good Mac-side. Shame th

Very cool! I've been hoping something like this would get active development again, since Launchy basically died. Alfred's been pretty good Mac-side. Shame that Synapse & near as I last saw Gnome Do seem to have also died off Linux-side. It's a useful product space.

ishu3101 11y ago
Wox also supports plugins. Plugins can be written in python and C#.
baldfat 11y ago
Linux side: I still use krunner (KDE) and I also like dmenu for simple launcher in tiled window managers.
Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
Check out dmenu for Linux. http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ Pipe a list of things into it, it'll graphically prompt the user for a specific thing, and then it'll print that thing to stdout. I use it to switch to named workspaces and to launch programs.
- iheartmemcache 11y ago
  The whole suckless organization is an absolutely fantastic entity. I'm not even sure who they are (over the course of nearly 20 years I've stumbled across most members of the major -nix subset-communities), but suckless's dedication to the UNIX "do one thing and do it right" ideal is so steadfast it blows my mind. Anyways, yeah, dmenu and dwm just got it right. (Though I must admit I flirt with wmii these days). Every -nix'er owes it to him/herself to put 'exec dwm' into their .xinitrc for a few months. This analogy won't do it justice - but - the way your mind expands shifting over is comparable to the development mentality shift one gets when moving from procedural C to LISP or Smalltalk.
JHonaker 11y ago
Is Alfred really that much better than the updated Spotlight? I used to use it (free version), but I find that Spotlight does everything I want/need that I'm aware of.
- mcintyre1994 11y ago
  Alfred workflows are super cool and have integrations like Evernote, Github and Stackoverflow that I don't see Apple ever supporting in Spotlight. Spotlight is way better for file searching though and its integrations are really good, but Alfred workflows are definitely worth looking into.

ishu3101 11y ago

Wox also supports plugins. Plugins can be written in python and C#.

baldfat 11y ago

Linux side: I still use krunner (KDE) and I also like dmenu for simple launcher in tiled window managers.

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago

Check out dmenu for Linux. http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ http://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ Pipe a list of things into it, it'll graphically prompt the user for a specific thing, and then it'll print that thing to stdout. I use it to switch to named workspaces and to launch programs.

iheartmemcache 11y ago
The whole suckless organization is an absolutely fantastic entity. I'm not even sure who they are (over the course of nearly 20 years I've stumbled across most members of the major -nix subset-communities), but suckless's dedication to the UNIX "do one thing and do it right" ideal is so steadfast it blows my mind. Anyways, yeah, dmenu and dwm just got it right. (Though I must admit I flirt with wmii these days). Every -nix'er owes it to him/herself to put 'exec dwm' into their .xinitrc for a few months. This analogy won't do it justice - but - the way your mind expands shifting over is comparable to the development mentality shift one gets when moving from procedural C to LISP or Smalltalk.

JHonaker 11y ago

Is Alfred really that much better than the updated Spotlight? I used to use it (free version), but I find that Spotlight does everything I want/need that I'm aware of.

mcintyre1994 11y ago
Alfred workflows are super cool and have integrations like Evernote, Github and Stackoverflow that I don't see Apple ever supporting in Spotlight. Spotlight is way better for file searching though and its integrations are really good, but Alfred workflows are definitely worth looking into.