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by Nadya
3767 days ago
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What advantages does this have over the well-known Launchy [0] which accomplishes the same tasks but multi-platform? You may want to touch upon any improvements if you want to win anyone (namely: me) over. I tried to read through the Configuration section and found nothing about limiting the scope of the search. For example, if I put .shortcut files into a certain directory, let's say `K:\Programs` and only want to use Keypirinha to quickly run those shortcuts. I find Launchy is finicky with updating its library for this purpose and often requires a bit of adding/removing/restarting/telling it to rescan before it finally picks up on additions/removals. I see nothing about limiting Keypirinha's searching scope. I appreciate that you anticipate users may move the .exe outside of the install directory. Too many people expect APP_EXE to be within APP_DIR, thank you for not making that assumption. :) Also the most important question: can the keybind be left alt + space? Or are there any keybind limitations that so many programs have that don't allow key modifiers to be bound with space? (E: Answer is `yes`, mentioned in Config file) [0] http://www.launchy.net/ |
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Keypirinha is more modern than Launchy in many ways and integrates better in recent Windows platforms (for example I've had troubles due to 64-bit platforms with Launchy; items not found or not launchable, ...). The search accuracy is very much improved as well. You can have machine and/or user-specific configuration in a portable way. In addition to that, Keypirinha is more easily extensible, it embeds a Python interpreter to load its plugins (whereas you had to compile a C++ plugin to do the same job with Launchy; I wasn't happy with the unofficial Launchy-Python plugin). That gives the user the power to modify the existing official plugins (they are open-source), or to create new plugins that fit her needs (that slowly leads us towards your "searching scope" question).
Keypirinha is also very young compared to venerable Launchy so its plugins catalog has yet to be "flourished".
Hope that answers your question regarding Keypirinha vs. Launchy.
Regarding the "searching scope" question, please follow the discussion on GitHub at: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Keypirinha/issues/3