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Show HN: Zazu App – An OSS app launcher, similar to Alfred

111 pointsby blaineschover 8 years ago

18 comments

Splendorover 8 years ago
I love that this is cross platform.<p>When I tried to install the debian package through the Ubuntu Software Center I received this warning:<p><pre><code> The package is of bad quality The installation of a package which violates the quality standards isn&#x27;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 check results for &#x2F;home&#x2F;&lt;user&gt;&#x2F;Downloads&#x2F;zazu-v0.2.1-linux-x64.deb: E: zazu: maintainer-address-missing Blaine Schmeisser</code></pre>
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liquidiseover 8 years ago
So Zazu is based on Alfred which was based on Quicksilver[1]. As someone who never left Quicksilver in the first place, what are some of the improvements that either alternative brings to the table?<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qsapp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;qsapp.com&#x2F;</a>
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blaineschover 8 years ago
I&#x27;m the author of Zazu, I&#x27;m happy to answer any questions. Ask away!
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teknologistover 8 years ago
I&#x27;ve recently been enjoying using Hain, another spotlight-esque launcher like this one with more features:<p>- A built-in package manager based on NPM<p>- A visual settings editor - there&#x27;s no need to edit configuration files<p>- Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names<p>- Toast notifications and buttons<p>- An HTML-based preview pane<p>Sadly it&#x27;s Windows-only for now, but there are contributors working on porting it to Linux and macOS.<p>If you&#x27;re running macOS I&#x27;ve had success with building the feature&#x2F;macos branch.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;appetizermonster&#x2F;hain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;appetizermonster&#x2F;hain</a>
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NicoSantangeloover 8 years ago
Seems really similar to Lacona ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lacona.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.lacona.io&#x2F;</a> ), which also has add-ons and it&#x27;s built on React.<p>Any idea if it&#x27;s based on it?
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ArlenBalesover 8 years ago
I&#x27;m a big power user of Alfred. I&#x27;ve created a lot of custom workflows in Alfred to automate things in macOS, such as setting up dev environments (window management) or using the Dash workflow integration. The power of Alfred is in its workflows and workflow creator. Alfred + Hammerspoon is particularly nice. (You can execute hotkeys in Alfred that trigger Hammerspoon init.lua bindings)<p>I can&#x27;t tell if Zazu is just a replacement for simple app launching, or if it has the ability to do everything Alfred&#x27;s workflows can do.
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scruffy_over 8 years ago
I have installed the latest version 0.3.2 for Ubuntu 16.04 via the Software Center, and also via Gdebi (which reported that it was already installed, but reinstalled) and I am unable to find the installation anywhere. No config files in my home directory. A search in Nautilus only finds the .deb. What am I missing? I am running Budgie desktop, if that makes a difference.
hprotagonistover 8 years ago
Note that on win10, you have to manually unblock the installer to allow it to run at all -- otherwise double-clicking just hangs explorer.exe.
ctvoover 8 years ago
Can you talk about the impact of this app on battery life &#x2F; performance? Slack has made me leery of everything electron.
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cpt1138over 8 years ago
Seems similar to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getzazu.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;664279182&#x2F;our-story" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;getzazu.tumblr.com&#x2F;post&#x2F;664279182&#x2F;our-story</a> ?
hartatorover 8 years ago
+1 for clipboard history easily searchable. I think in my workflow it&#x27;s adding so much to my personal productivy. Maybe the best productivy hack in Alfred.
notheguyouthinkover 8 years ago
This is really great! I&#x27;ll have to try it out sometime.<p>I&#x27;ve been wanting a &quot;replacement&quot; for Alfred for years. Not because i dislike Alfred, i love it; But because it&#x27;s a tool locking me to OSX.<p>These days i want me tools to be cross platform and a good core UX, even if that means i have to drop features. It&#x27;s why i like CLI tools so much.
wideemover 8 years ago
Tested using Linux mint: calculator, google and other things didn&#x27;t work, the only thing that was working was application launcher
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eMerzhover 8 years ago
got it running on osx, first it didn&#x27;t worked (nothing suggested), then i&#x27;ve restarted it and it seems to work.<p>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&#x27;t quickly disambiguate them
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binaryblitzover 8 years ago
I love this thing so far. I recently switched to using Mint instead of OSX because I refuse to pay $2300 for a 15&quot; MBP. I was really missing the clipboard ability of Alfred, and this is REALLY helpful.<p>Would it be possible to auto paste the clipboard result when you select it?
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splitbrainover 8 years ago
Building it on Arch Linux failed because npm run release expects dpkg-deb to be available.
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pech0rinover 8 years ago
Seems interesting. Installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and keeps asking to update to 0.2.2 and hotkeys don&#x27;t seem to work. Also crashed during a file search.
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scruffy_over 8 years ago
Disregard. A reboot has it showing up now.