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Another Launcher - The ultimate power tool?
Authored by: gdsimms on Dec 01, '03 01:24:27PM

Only 7/10?

I would have rated it 8/10 a few weeks ago, before the major speed improvement. Now it's easily a 9. Even if it were nothing but the "enter abbreviation" popup it would be an 8.

I have stripped my dock down to bare essentials, and I launch almost everything with [ctrl]+[opt]+[return], [some substring of application name]. This also works for my many terminal shortcuts, so I can pop up a new ssh window to any of a dozen machines with only a few keys. The visual feedback as I type into the abbreviation window is awesome, too. No need to blindly remember keys; you just type what you know and it guides you the rest of the way.

The big way I can think of to make it better would be support of kde-style "web shortcuts" prefixes, so that I can define my own web queries with "gg:" "av:" "dict:" "thes:" etc. prefixes that would submit to google, alta vista, dictionary.com, and thesaurus.com, respectively.

Then it would be an easy 10.



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