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I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the
by thedaemon 7y ago
I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?
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- egypturnash 7y agoI was using Launchbar on my OS9 Mac well before Quicksilver existed. It’s still around: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html Wikipedia’s list of app launchers may be useful in figuring out what the first was, sadly it only has the dates for the latest releases, not initial releases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop_application_launchers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_desktop_applicat...
- andrepd 7y agoSynapse is my go-to choice.
- filmgirlcw 7y agoI think Quicksilver is the one that started the trend that has persisted for the last 16 years or so — and that trend certainly increased with Spotlight’s introduction with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger in 2005 — although as mentioned below, LaunchBar predates it by 6 or 7 years. But Quicksilver really introduced (as far as I remember) the UI that most other modern launchers still use, and that Spotlight later “stole” — which is to do the search in the middle of the desktop. LaunchBar is probably the OG, but I think most of what has come since (including LB, which remains excellent), was influenced by Quicksilver in the early aughts.
- kitsunesoba 7y agoYep, I was a big QS fan back in the day but switched to Alfred for its cleaner look and stayed for its crazy speed and stability.