aurellius

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   by aurellius 2mo ago

   amazing to hear!
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   by aurellius 2mo ago

   a lot more memory efficient too, especially if you compare it to V2 :D It's on par with V1 I think.
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   Show HN: Vicinae – open-source, Raycast-compatible command palette, now on macOS(github.com)

   6 points by aurellius 2mo ago|6 comments
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   by aurellius 1y ago

   I usually try to optimize for CPU usage more than I do for RAM, mostly because I care about my battery life and for things to remain snappy. Although Vicinae does a lot of caching where it can it probably maintains a quite reasonable memory
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   by aurellius 1y ago

   ha! I came across loungy too. Very cool as well!
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   by aurellius 1y ago

   did you open source it? I know about gauntlet and tried it before, great project!
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   by aurellius 1y ago

   Extension resizing would be tricky from a UX standpoint, as it would make things a little bit unpredictable, but general window resizing will definitely be a thing
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   by aurellius 1y ago

   Thanks, although it's not up to Raycast's level (yet)!
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   by aurellius 1y ago

   I have a very similar experience, I used mac for a long time, then moved to linux and used the simpler alternatives. Then I found Raycast and their extension system, and thought it would be amazing to have something similar on Linux, so I m
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    Thanks! Yeah I will definitely write something like that in the future
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    thanks! I think so too. Easy extensibility is also a very important factor imo. I think React (declarative UI in general) has it good there.
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    not yet but that's the next target
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    the newly released 0.9.4 should fix some of your issues.
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    Yeah I know about this project, but I don't know how joining forces would go as the tech stack is entirely different.
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    what version are you running? I'm currently working on improving extension support but yes, some are still in a broken state.
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    thank you! (from a gentoo user, I guess that makes us cousins)
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    yeah. The general idea of having anything at a few keystrokes is the most amazing thing to me
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    by aurellius 1y ago

    Thanks! Honestly a lot of the code you will find has very messy parts to it but that's mostly because I didn't get the time to make it any better yet
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    Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux(github.com)

    181 points by aurellius 1y ago|39 comments