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An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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Off topic, but does anyone know what program they used as a screen recorder in the README .gif?

Don't know what this guy used exactly, but GifCam is really good - http://blog.bahraniapps.com/gifcam/ - it's not fancy, but it's well done on the engineering side, maintains good FPS when capturing and compresses really well.

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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> The name "Hain" is named by Hyunseop Lee, it means "a Servant" in Korean. Also means "traitor" in Turkish, cool name.

Scottish/gaelic "fein" is pronounced "hain", meaning self/yourself.

Huh, in Irish Gaelic (best gaelic) "fein" is pronounced like "feign" in English, with a leading "f" sound.

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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Shouldn'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 Expl…

What on earth does spacebar do? I've been using windows for decades and I have no clue! I just tried it right now and still have no clue!

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scottish/gaelic "fein" is pronounced "hain", meaning self/yourself.

Huh, in Irish Gaelic (best gaelic) "fein" is pronounced like "feign" in English, with a leading "f" sound.

That's because it's spelled "féin" as Gaeilge, so it's more like 'fay-n'

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Huh, in Irish Gaelic (best gaelic) "fein" is pronounced like "feign" in English, with a leading "f" sound.

That's because it's spelled "féin" as Gaeilge, so it's more like 'fay-n'

Yeah, (born and raised in Ireland, complete with the mandatory Irish Language lessons), I'm just wondering where the poster above got the supposed "h" sound from.

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's because it's spelled "féin" as Gaeilge, so it's more like 'fay-n'

Yeah, (born and raised in Ireland, complete with the mandatory Irish Language lessons), I'm just wondering where the poster above got the supposed "h" sound from.

I'm pretty sure it's pronounced with that 'h' sound in Ulster but most schools in Ireland are taught "Gaeilge na Mumhan" so we grew up it being an 'f' sound

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Expl…

What on earth does spacebar do? I've been using windows for decades and I have no clue! I just tried it right now and still have no clue!

My guess: it selects elements of the UI while you tab through them. Stuff like table headers, for example.

Re: An 'alt+space' launcher for Windows, built with Electron

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As others have pointed out, there are stuff that should not be made with Electron and this is one type of app that just shouldn't. If it is platform specific anyways, why not do it in like C# or something that would make it lighter and faster?

I'm pretty sure that the .NET runtime can compete on size with Electron. I.e. it is as big if not bigger. We just don't care about that because Microsoft includes it in the base OS.

I can't speak about the "faster" part, though.

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