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TBH right now the functionality looks very close to Alfred (not sure about Quicksilver or anything else that's open-source). Except, dunno if it's possible here

by aasasd 8y ago

TBH right now the functionality looks very close to Alfred (not sure about Quicksilver or anything else that's open-source). Except, dunno if it's possible here but afaik in Alfred plugins can generate the results on the fly in response to what's entered. That opens surprisingly many possibilities, and specifically Alfred serves as a keyboard-driven tool that replaces GUIs to some tasks: e.g. weather is shown right in the result list; you can search in apps like Evernote via their APIs, or you can add content to them, etc. From the usability standpoint, one thing to note is that such an app needs only one global hotkey while providing functionality via more easily remembered commands, akin to the command line, with completion on the fly. It's often quicker for me to summon an app with a few letters from its name than to look for it in the cmd-tab list.

SylvieLorxu 8y ago
Pretty much, yeah. Currently Pext doesn't support letting modules react on-the-fly (I ran into some performance issues and race conditions), but it definitely should be possible. Global hotkey support, you're completely right. It's always been in the back of my mind, but I never got to it (because I didn't figure out a solution for macOS) and forgot to make a ticket, made one now: https://github.com/Pext/Pext/issues/124 https://github.com/Pext/Pext/issues/124. Completion is already implemented, but is not always perfect behaviour-wise. Patches and bug reports welcome, of course :)
ehsankia 8y ago
On Windows, check out Keypirinha [1]. It's powerful and has fantastic Python plugin support. For example, I've written a plugin that loads all your Steam games [2] into the database and allows you to launch them quickly, and another to port your Launchy config over [3] (for those like me who used Launchy before). It has many other plugins [4] too. [1] http://keypirinha.com/ http://keypirinha.com/ [2] https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/keypirinha-steam https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/k... [3] https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/keypirinha-launchy https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/k... [4] http://keypirinha.com/contributions.html http://keypirinha.com/contributions.html

by aasasd 8y ago

SylvieLorxu 8y ago

Pretty much, yeah. Currently Pext doesn't support letting modules react on-the-fly (I ran into some performance issues and race conditions), but it definitely should be possible. Global hotkey support, you're completely right. It's always been in the back of my mind, but I never got to it (because I didn't figure out a solution for macOS) and forgot to make a ticket, made one now: https://github.com/Pext/Pext/issues/124 https://github.com/Pext/Pext/issues/124. Completion is already implemented, but is not always perfect behaviour-wise. Patches and bug reports welcome, of course :)

ehsankia 8y ago

On Windows, check out Keypirinha [1]. It's powerful and has fantastic Python plugin support. For example, I've written a plugin that loads all your Steam games [2] into the database and allows you to launch them quickly, and another to port your Launchy config over [3] (for those like me who used Launchy before). It has many other plugins [4] too. [1] http://keypirinha.com/ http://keypirinha.com/ [2] https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/keypirinha-steam https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/k... [3] https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/keypirinha-launchy https://github.com/EhsanKia/keypirinha-plugins/tree/master/k... [4] http://keypirinha.com/contributions.html http://keypirinha.com/contributions.html