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aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – open-source, Raycast-compatible command palette, now on macOS
amazing to hear!
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – open-source, Raycast-compatible command palette, now on macOS
a lot more memory efficient too, especially if you compare it to V2 :D It's on par with V1 I think.
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
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 footprint when compared to apps with web frontends.
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
ha! I came across loungy too. Very cool as well!
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
did you open source it? I know about gauntlet and tried it before, great project!
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
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
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
Thanks, although it's not up to Raycast's level (yet)!
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
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 made this :)
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
Thanks! Yeah I will definitely write something like that in the future
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
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.
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
not yet but that's the next target
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
the newly released 0.9.4 should fix some of your issues.
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
Yeah I know about this project, but I don't know how joining forces would go as the tech stack is entirely different.
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
what version are you running? I'm currently working on improving extension support but yes, some are still in a broken state.
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
thank you! (from a gentoo user, I guess that makes us cousins)
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
yeah. The general idea of having anything at a few keystrokes is the most amazing thing to me
aurellius··on Show HN: Vicinae – A native, Raycast-compatible launcher for Linux
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