An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
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Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#2How does this match up to Launchy?
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#3Shouldn't the docs mention that alt-space already does something on windows? Or is it assumed that whoever doesn't know about the default functionality won't miss it? Or maybe everyone knows?
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#4Shouldn't the docs mention that alt-space already does something on windows? Or is it assumed that whoever doesn't know about the default functionality won't miss it? Or maybe everyone knows?
They definitely should. I have a dedicated button for it, so will continue to use that, but many of my colleagues (at a S-ME IT service provider) didn't know this menu existed. Trust the Indian guy to know, though
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#5Shouldn't the docs mention that alt-space already does something on windows? Or is it assumed that whoever doesn't know about the default functionality won't miss it? Or maybe everyone knows?
Sometimes people just get a great idea for a cool keyboard shortcut and simply don't know that it already has a standard meaning.
This may be such a case, and Parallels is definitely one. Parallels 11 takes over the spacebar (just plain spacebar) in Windows Explorer, using it to pop up an OSX Quick Look panel like it does in Finder.
They apparently didn't think to check whether spacebar already does something in Explorer. (It does, and keyboard users like me use it all the time - it's an essential shortcut for keyboard navigation.)
And from what I've seen in forums and other interactions, they can't seem to imagine that it was a bad idea to take over this key with no option to turn off the behavior.
I love Parallels, but this is so clueless!
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#6Shouldn't the docs mention that alt-space already does something on windows? Or is it assumed that whoever doesn't know about the default functionality won't miss it? Or maybe everyone knows?
They definitely should. I have a dedicated button for it, so will continue to use that, but many of my colleagues (at a S-ME IT service provider) didn't know this menu existed. Trust the Indian guy to know, though
You have a dedicated Alt+Space (System Menu) button? Never saw that before, would be curious what kind of keyboard this is. I'm always interested in different kinds of keyboards.
Or is it a menu key that opens the right-click menu (not the same as the alt+space system menu), like this one:
http://www.laptopmag.com/images/wp/purch-api/incontent/2012/...
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#7This is cute as a proof of concept, but it needs severe performance improvements if it's intended to replace Launchy.
Launchy sits there with 30mb ram used and no cpu used when not in use.
This launcher sits there with 170mb ram used, and 1% of a core in constant use.
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#8i really love these launcher apps.
this one sort of illustrates the problem with developing windows apps:
- you either learn complicated c++ and windows api and have to write your own rendering framework for custom components
- or use C# and xaml and get terrible performance with systems with no gpu acceleration
- or use VB for terrible performance and CPU usage
- or use javascript and node for huge memory usage and slower rendering than c++ (VB has the same issues)
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#9How does this match up to Launchy?
Launchy doesn't require you to install npm first.
Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron
#10This is cute as a proof of concept, but it needs severe performance improvements if it's intended to replace Launchy. Launchy sits there with 30mb ram used and no cpu used when not in use. This launcher sits there with 170mb ram used, and 1% of a core in constant use.
But launchy doesn't use Node.js..!
That said, honestly I wish I knew the Node.js ecosystem:-/