[blainesch]

I'm the author of Zazu, I'm happy to answer any questions. Ask away!

[sorokod]

On Win 10 FHD the UI is tiny - looks like a scaling issue. Also uninstall is broken.

[MatthewRayfield]

I bought the original Alfred v1 Powerpack.

But, they recently made that unavailable for download and want me to buy v3... Which I don't need.

So I've been awaiting an alternative.

So thanks for this ! I'm excited to try it out.

[2citizen]

You can still try to download v2 here, based on wildcard naming convention.

https://cachefly.alfredapp.com/Alfred_2.8.7_442.dmg

P.S.: not sure about license compatibility of v1 -> v2.

[blainesch]

Awesome to hear! I hope this works well for you! [:

[Jaepa]

Alfred piggybacks on spotlight's metadata index for finding a file, how does the file finder for this work?

This looks great. I've been debating on building my own tool for this. I'll try and contribute some code to this.

[blainesch]

Yes, since the first file finder needed to be cross platform I create a cache in the plugin, but a mac specific one would be great! :D

Technically it spins up another process and recursively goes through a whitelisted set of directories. It caches just the app locations, not all the files.

[Jaepa]

Hmmm alright interesting. I'll look at this when I get off work. Thank you for the reply.

[alwillis]

The homepage says

  brew cask install zazu

should work to install via Homebrew, but it doesn't.

[mmjaa]

    $ brew update && brew cask install zazu

Works for me...

    $ brew --version
    Homebrew 1.1.6
    Homebrew/homebrew-core (git revision e517; last commit 2017-01-05)

[skykooler]

How does this compare to GNOME Do?

[ch4s3]

How does the file search on Win10 compare to native file search?

[blainesch]

It was implemented in Node and I've not benchmarked it on Windows, but it's probably not as fast. [:

[pier25]

How do you search files in a cross platform way?