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Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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Looks nice! You have a good foundation in modal input order. How’s your file indexing and search compared to Alfred’s? RayCast struggles with this. Alfred’s is solid, especially stands out with `in` search. Custom search query strings/results is important, too. I couldn’t tell how you support that from the marketing site.

Love that you're calling it a "marketing site" Indexing is meant to be as fast as possible. It's good enough for my needs. You can add custom folders and/or their contents to the global index. Which I think would be the equivalent of "in" search?

Sorry, marketing site is reflexive use on my part. Not meant as a putdown in any way. :)

Alfred has three main search prefixes, find, open and in. Find does titles, in does in-document search. It's pretty fast and live-updates as you type. Find/open is the weird part relative to Tuna, as you'd rather decide which action to take after filtering down search results.

Anyway, now that I'm on my Mac, I was able to compare them. Alfred's search seems to be several times faster than Tuna's search (based on when Tuna shows the UI with search results.)

Tuna also chokes on adding too many folders to search; the settings pane beachballs and the app can't be used, even after force quitting and restarted. If that's due to heavy indexing, maybe that could be decoupled from the UI so it could search the partial index in the meantime. Or back the user out of folder depth they selected if it's not going to perform.

Tuna also has some of the same missing items that Raycast has, that Alfred finds; I know Alfred also makes use of Spotlight's index, but they do something in addition to that.

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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Love that you're calling it a "marketing site" Indexing is meant to be as fast as possible. It's good enough for my needs. You can add custom folders and/or their contents to the global index. Which I think would be the equivalent of "in" search?

Sorry, marketing site is reflexive use on my part. Not meant as a putdown in any way. :) Alfred has three main search prefixes, find, open and in. Find does titles, in does in-document search. It's pretty fast and live-updates as you type. Find/open is the weird part relative to Tuna, as you'd rather decide which action to take after filtering down search results. Anyway, now that I'm on my Mac, I was able to compare…

The index isn't for all the files. Of course, if one adds all the files anyway the experience should be better than what you describe.

There's a "Spotlight search" action that open a Finder window with the search query. I think that's how it'll work for now re: spotlight

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry, marketing site is reflexive use on my part. Not meant as a putdown in any way. :) Alfred has three main search prefixes, find, open and in. Find does titles, in does in-document search. It's pretty fast and live-updates as you type. Find/open is the weird part relative to Tuna, as you'd rather decide which action to take after filtering down search results. Anyway, now that I'm on my Mac, I was able to compare…

The index isn't for all the files . Of course, if one adds all the files anyway the experience should be better than what you describe. There's a "Spotlight search" action that open a Finder window with the search query. I think that's how it'll work for now re: spotlight

Sorry, I think I've offended you. Just got excited; this is a favorite software category of mine.

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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> New, modern launcher for macOS, built from the ground up The only sign of modernity noticed is leaving good old stuff behind: > macOS 15 Sequoia or newer required

It was Tahoe only at first but quite a few people asked me to lax the version requirement and now you're telling me that's a problem too?

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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> New, modern launcher for macOS, built from the ground up The only sign of modernity noticed is leaving good old stuff behind: > macOS 15 Sequoia or newer required

It was Tahoe only at first but quite a few people asked me to lax the version requirement and now you're telling me that's a problem too?

You aren't even following the stupid Apple rule of supporting the latest 3 years of OS, how is expanding 1 year to 2 is not a problem for a text box with a bunch of extra functions?

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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Why?

I simply don't see how it's related to launcher software apart from name, I suppose author likes to eat tuna, may be down to personal preferences but I do not prefer to depict and associate my software with raw animals meat fragments.

What you see as disgusting chunks of flesh other people see as completely innocent normal pictures of super common food. Sushi is an emoji. It’s one step away from being repulsed because they call the UI widget a hamburger menu.

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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post #36
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was Tahoe only at first but quite a few people asked me to lax the version requirement and now you're telling me that's a problem too?

You aren't even following the stupid Apple rule of supporting the latest 3 years of OS, how is expanding 1 year to 2 is not a problem for a text box with a bunch of extra functions?

lol

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The index isn't for all the files . Of course, if one adds all the files anyway the experience should be better than what you describe. There's a "Spotlight search" action that open a Finder window with the search query. I think that's how it'll work for now re: spotlight

Sorry, I think I've offended you. Just got excited; this is a favorite software category of mine.

Not at all! Current implementation is too easy to use "wrong". Index isn't really built for large trees. Working on a different take on it

Re: Tuna: A new, modern, modal launcher for macOS

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post #8

Hey nerds! I made Tuna – happy to answer any and all questions. Thank you for posting it OP!

I'm a big fan of your other app Leader Key: it's the closest equivalent to the Windows+number keyboard shortcuts that I use all the time on my other computer (but better since you're not limited to 10 apps and you can use mnemonic shortcuts). Does the release of Tuna mean that Leader Key is now deprecated/unmaintained?
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