blainesch

I added the maintainer email address for the v0.2.2 deploy, can you confirm this is working for you now?

Hain is a great project, they launched a few months after I started working on Zazu!

For comparison:

- Zazu has a github based package manager

- A dotfile for configuration (for backup!)

- Very fast fuzzy matching of file and program names

- Cross platform notifications (toast on windows!)

- An HTML-based preview pane

- Cross platform!

I haven't heard of lacona until you just mentioned it, but it does look nice. They also have plugins written in node, but offer a more "natural language" search, which Zazu doesn't. Zazu is also completely open source, but they have a paid version. Zazu is all cross platform, but Lacona only offers mac builds.

In v0.2.2 it tells you when it's still loading the plugins. Feel free to try deleting your ~/.zazu folder and using this newer version!

Completely agree, and I can't wait to have one for Zazu! :D

The v0.2.2 I pushed the tag for, but didn't update the website. Sorry about that.

Can you report the crash in the repo and attach the ~/.zazu/log file?

I would LOVE auto paste, but I've not found a good way to do this in Electron yet. ]:

If you know how, let me know :D

I haven't installed Quick Silver in many years, so my understanding may be dated, but at the time it didn't offer many intuitive actions, such as copying the calculator result to your clipboard.

Alfred doesn't treat plugins as first class citizens, only alfred can have the top level search space, all plugins have prefixes. Plugins in Zazu are first class citizens, there is no built in behavior so you have more flexibility with what you want.

Zazu is also cross platform, so switching between Mac and Ubuntu for instance wouldn't hurt your workflow. Alfred and QuickSilver are Mac specific.

Uh oh! Can you file an issue on github with the log file stored in `~/.zazu/log`?

I've been running it on my Mac, along with other electron apps like Slack and VSCode, and I've not noticed a drain on my battery.

It's never come up in my "Apps using significant energy" in the battery dropdown.

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

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.

I just installed on a fresh install of Ubuntu, but maybe this is debian specific. It looks like I just need to add my email address to the author field, I'll try and release again today with that fix and one other! :D