Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by GordonS » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 9:04 PM UTC

Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows
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Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by thedaemon » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 9:57 PM UTC

I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?

Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 10:14 PM UTC

thedaemon wrote: post #2

I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?

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Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 10:28 PM UTC

thedaemon wrote: post #2

I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?

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Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by foolinaround » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 10:34 PM UTC

How does this compare with launchy? https://www.launchy.net/

Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by traskjd » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

No commits for about a year, with a readme saying it’s early in dev suggests this project is largely dead. Am I misreading something here?

Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by ASalazarMX » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 10:45 PM UTC

foolinaround wrote: post #5

How does this compare with launchy? https://www.launchy.net/

Launchy is closed source. However reputable the source, I wouldn't install a random closed source app just for searching the Start Menu.

Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by egypturnash » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 10:59 PM UTC

thedaemon wrote: post #2

I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?

I was using Launchbar on my OS9 Mac well before Quicksilver existed. It’s still around: 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_applicat...

Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by jeanlucas » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 11:04 PM UTC

ASalazarMX wrote: post #7

foolinaround wrote: post #5

How does this compare with launchy? https://www.launchy.net/

Launchy is closed source. However reputable the source, I wouldn't install a random closed source app just for searching the Start Menu.

Yeah, but an unmaintained open source project have potential to be much more harmful.

Re: Jarvis, an Alfred Alternative for Windows

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Post by andrepd » Mon, Dec 23, 2019, 11:07 PM UTC

thedaemon wrote: post #2

I always had a fondness for Gnome DO, which I believe predates Alfred by a few years. https://do.cooperteam.net/ Does anyone know the original text based launcher? Quicksilver perhaps?

Synapse is my go-to choice.