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Seems interesting. Installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and keeps asking to update to 0.2.2 and hotkeys don't seem to work. Also crashed during a file search.
Can you report the crash in the repo and attach the ~/.zazu/log file?
- A built-in package manager based on NPM
- A visual settings editor - there's no need to edit configuration files
- Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names
- Toast notifications and buttons
- An HTML-based preview pane
Sadly it's Windows-only for now, but there are contributors working on porting it to Linux and macOS.
If you're running macOS I've had success with building the feature/macos branch.
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Zazu does allow for keyboard shortcuts, and can do everything the Alfred workflows can, but does not currently provide a GUI for creating the workflows. The biggest difference for the plugins, is that they are written in Node so they can be cross platform. For more info on creating plugins: http://zazuapp.org/documentation/plugins/
Thanks. The workflow creator GUI is the big seller for Alfred, it saves a lot of time in testing and tweaking workflows and from having to write a bunch of boilerplate.
got it running on osx, first it didn't worked (nothing suggested), then i've restarted it and it seems to work. pretty basic, but it more or less match my needs. the only thing that i miss is the file icons or app icons: it show you multiple match but the icons are all the same, dark, so you can't quickly disambiguate them
I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!
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.
https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg
P.S.: not sure about license compatibility of v1 -> v2.
Building it on Arch Linux failed because npm run release expects dpkg-deb to be available.
Seems really similar to Lacona ( https://www.lacona.io/ ), which also has add-ons and it's built on React. Any idea if it's based on it?
I've recently been enjoying using Hain, another spotlight-esque launcher like this one with more features: - A built-in package manager based on NPM - A visual settings editor - there's no need to edit configuration files - Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names - Toast notifications and buttons - An HTML-based preview pane Sadly it's Windows-only for now, but there are contributors working on porting it…
For comparison:
- Zazu has a github based package manager
- A dotfile for configuration (for backup!)
- Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names
- Cross platform notifications (toast on windows!)
- An HTML-based preview pane
- Cross platform!
I love that this is cross platform. When I tried to install the debian package through the Ubuntu Software Center I received this warning: The package is of bad quality The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn't allowed. This could cause serious problems on your computer. Please contact the person or organisation who provided this package file and include the details beneath. Lintian che…