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Hey all, I'm the developer behind Shortcat. Feel free to ask me questions or give me feedback! I'm on a short holiday at the moment so I might not be able to re

Hey all, I'm the developer behind Shortcat. Feel free to ask me questions or give me feedback! I'm on a short holiday at the moment so I might not be able to respond super quick. If you do use the app and it crashes, please send a crash report and a short description what you were doing. It helps me a lot figuring out what the problem is. I post up known issues at https://trello.com/board/shortcat-bugs/51ac6a3711f6b34606001d7f https://trello.com/board/shortcat-bugs/51ac6a3711f6b34606001... (public Trello board) so people can vote and comment on issues. I strongly suggest reading the README as I haven't baked in a tutorial to the app just yet.

terhechte 13y ago
Great Idea, great execution, great name. I love it so far! Thanks a ton!
malandrew 13y ago
Yeah, despite my suggestion in my other comment. This is great stuff.
peatmoss 13y ago
Does it have a "my mind has been poisoned by emacs" mode?
uncr3ative 13y ago
I love this! Would love it even more if it let me choose from the open tabs (the open coversations) in adium...;)
- _chendo_ 13y ago
  I believe this is an issue with Adium and the way it reports the accessibility details for the tabs. It seems to be the entire tab bar rather than just the tab itself (I use vertical tabs). I haven't found the time to send in a patch just yet as I'm sinking most of it into Shortcat. Hopefully an Adium dev ends up using Shortcat and fixes it!
- ddinh 13y ago
  Similar issue occurs in iterm: http://i.imgur.com/UBybMP4.png http://i.imgur.com/UBybMP4.png
  - klapinat0r 13y ago
    Would you mind sharing which font that is? Looks a bit like some form of Courier. Is it a specific zsh theme (oh-my-zsh), or custom? :)
GuiA 13y ago
Loving the product, have been using it for 20 minutes or so now. I can see myself using this super heavily. Thanks! Bug report: http://i.imgur.com/wTwXpx2.png http://i.imgur.com/wTwXpx2.png (your "reply" link isn't highlighted, but all others are)
- _chendo_ 13y ago
  Great! That's quite odd... WebViews are a hard beast to figure out cause web pages generally contain quite a few elements (sometimes 20k+), which makes it rather annoying to search and deal with. Chrome with the --force-accessibility-renderer flag has issues with element positions due to caching (I think). Safari has much better support but it's a tiny bit slower than Chrome. Right now, I'm focusing on other features. Hopefully browsers get better!
pje 13y ago
The app icon's a little creepy.
- benregn 13y ago
  Heh, it is a bit. The reason is probably the uncanny valley effect[1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley
kps 13y ago
Looks like a great idea… any chance of Snow Leopard compatibility?
- _chendo_ 13y ago
  Not at this point, sorry :(
  - fsiefken 13y ago
    The issue is that people on 2007 macbooks could upgrade to Lion, but Lion is a tad slower then Snow Leopard and they need all the performance they can get. But thanks for the great software!
Filligree 13y ago
I haven't used it much yet, but it seems nice. How do I pay you for it? :-)
- _chendo_ 13y ago
  I'll be adding licensing in the next month or two :)
  - pepijndevos 13y ago
    What will it cost?
    - quiesce 13y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822
esusatyo 13y ago
Good job, thank you so much. Public Trello board is a brilliant idea too :)
zura 13y ago
Maybe add some kind of window movements with a keyboard? To fully get rid of mice.
- kozikow 13y ago
  Try slate: http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate&#x2F http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate/
white_devil 13y ago
So how do you plan to make money with this?
- srik 13y ago
  The app is in Beta. I imagine he could sell it for a reasonable amount.
kaeluka 13y ago
I'm using a mouse-less browsing plugin anyway, so don't need shortcat in the browser. I've had it installed a while now and found that I almost never use it -- surprisingly. One thing you could support to fix that: why can't I click on the menu bar of an application? One thing that annoys me: whenever I cylce through open applications with cmd-tab, shortcat is there.
porker 13y ago
Who did your logo? Very cute :)

terhechte 13y ago

Great Idea, great execution, great name. I love it so far! Thanks a ton!

malandrew 13y ago

Yeah, despite my suggestion in my other comment. This is great stuff.

peatmoss 13y ago

Does it have a "my mind has been poisoned by emacs" mode?

uncr3ative 13y ago

I love this! Would love it even more if it let me choose from the open tabs (the open coversations) in adium...;)

_chendo_ 13y ago
I believe this is an issue with Adium and the way it reports the accessibility details for the tabs. It seems to be the entire tab bar rather than just the tab itself (I use vertical tabs). I haven't found the time to send in a patch just yet as I'm sinking most of it into Shortcat. Hopefully an Adium dev ends up using Shortcat and fixes it!
ddinh 13y ago
Similar issue occurs in iterm: http://i.imgur.com/UBybMP4.png http://i.imgur.com/UBybMP4.png
- klapinat0r 13y ago
  Would you mind sharing which font that is? Looks a bit like some form of Courier. Is it a specific zsh theme (oh-my-zsh), or custom? :)

GuiA 13y ago

Loving the product, have been using it for 20 minutes or so now. I can see myself using this super heavily. Thanks! Bug report: http://i.imgur.com/wTwXpx2.png http://i.imgur.com/wTwXpx2.png (your "reply" link isn't highlighted, but all others are)

_chendo_ 13y ago
Great! That's quite odd... WebViews are a hard beast to figure out cause web pages generally contain quite a few elements (sometimes 20k+), which makes it rather annoying to search and deal with. Chrome with the --force-accessibility-renderer flag has issues with element positions due to caching (I think). Safari has much better support but it's a tiny bit slower than Chrome. Right now, I'm focusing on other features. Hopefully browsers get better!

pje 13y ago

The app icon's a little creepy.

benregn 13y ago
Heh, it is a bit. The reason is probably the uncanny valley effect[1]. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

kps 13y ago

Looks like a great idea… any chance of Snow Leopard compatibility?

_chendo_ 13y ago
Not at this point, sorry :(
- fsiefken 13y ago
  The issue is that people on 2007 macbooks could upgrade to Lion, but Lion is a tad slower then Snow Leopard and they need all the performance they can get. But thanks for the great software!

Filligree 13y ago

I haven't used it much yet, but it seems nice. How do I pay you for it? :-)

_chendo_ 13y ago
I'll be adding licensing in the next month or two :)
- pepijndevos 13y ago
  What will it cost?
  - quiesce 13y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5842822

esusatyo 13y ago

Good job, thank you so much. Public Trello board is a brilliant idea too :)

zura 13y ago

Maybe add some kind of window movements with a keyboard? To fully get rid of mice.

kozikow 13y ago
Try slate: http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate&#x2F http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate/

white_devil 13y ago

So how do you plan to make money with this?

srik 13y ago
The app is in Beta. I imagine he could sell it for a reasonable amount.

kaeluka 13y ago

I'm using a mouse-less browsing plugin anyway, so don't need shortcat in the browser. I've had it installed a while now and found that I almost never use it -- surprisingly. One thing you could support to fix that: why can't I click on the menu bar of an application? One thing that annoys me: whenever I cylce through open applications with cmd-tab, shortcat is there.

porker 13y ago

Who did your logo? Very cute :)