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I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!

MatthewRayfield 10y ago
I bought the original Alfred v1 Powerpack. But, they recently made that unavailable for download and want me to buy v3... Which I don't need. So I've been awaiting an alternative. So thanks for this ! I'm excited to try it out.
- blainesch 10y ago
  Awesome to hear! I hope this works well for you! [:
- 2citizen 10y ago
  You can still try to download v2 here, based on wildcard naming convention. https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg P.S.: not sure about license compatibility of v1 -> v2.
ch4s3 10y ago
How does the file search on Win10 compare to native file search?
- blainesch 10y ago
  It was implemented in Node and I've not benchmarked it on Windows, but it's probably not as fast. [:
Jaepa 10y ago
Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work? This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.
- blainesch 10y ago
  Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.
  - Jaepa 10y ago
    Hmmm alright interesting. I'll look at this when I get off work. Thank you for the reply.
sorokod 10y ago
On Win 10 FHD the UI is tiny - looks like a scaling issue. Also uninstall is broken.
skykooler 10y ago
How does this compare to GNOME Do?
alwillis 10y ago
The homepage says brew cask install zazu should work to install via Homebrew, but it doesn't.
- mmjaa 10y ago
  $ brew update && brew cask install zazu Works for me... $ brew --version Homebrew 1.1.6 Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision e517; last commit 2017-01-05)
pier25 10y ago
How do you search files in a cross platform way?

I bought the original Alfred v1 Powerpack. But, they recently made that unavailable for download and want me to buy v3... Which I don't need. So I've been awaiting an alternative. So thanks for this ! I'm excited to try it out.

blainesch 10y ago
Awesome to hear! I hope this works well for you! [:
2citizen 10y ago
You can still try to download v2 here, based on wildcard naming convention. https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg P.S.: not sure about license compatibility of v1 -> v2.

ch4s3 10y ago

How does the file search on Win10 compare to native file search?

blainesch 10y ago
It was implemented in Node and I've not benchmarked it on Windows, but it's probably not as fast. [:

Jaepa 10y ago

Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work? This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

blainesch 10y ago
Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.
- Jaepa 10y ago
  Hmmm alright interesting. I'll look at this when I get off work. Thank you for the reply.

sorokod 10y ago

On Win 10 FHD the UI is tiny - looks like a scaling issue. Also uninstall is broken.

skykooler 10y ago

How does this compare to GNOME Do?

alwillis 10y ago

The homepage says brew cask install zazu should work to install via Homebrew, but it doesn't.

mmjaa 10y ago
$ brew update && brew cask install zazu Works for me... $ brew --version Homebrew 1.1.6 Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision e517; last commit 2017-01-05)

pier25 10y ago

How do you search files in a cross platform way?