[HN Gopher] Albert - open-source keyboard launcher for Linux ___________________________________________________________________ Albert - open-source keyboard launcher for Linux Author : Curiositry Score : 25 points Date : 2022-06-04 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (albertlauncher.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (albertlauncher.github.io) | albertzeyer wrote: | Nice, thanks for naming a project after me. :P | | I also like the ALBERT lite-BERT model | (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.11942). Although this was just a | matter of time. The other names which match to "*bert*" were | already taken. | | Anyway, going on topic: Such a project really should have a | related work section, right at the beginning, because there are | many existing launchers, and just say how this is different | (maybe better). E.g. see here | (https://alternativeto.net/software/alfred/?platform=linux). But | I also would be interested on differences e.g. to Alfred (Mac). I | really wonder why such comparisons are very often missing. | | Also, a bit more information would be nice. Is this cross | platform? Or Linux only? It seems Mac is on the todo-list | (https://github.com/albertlauncher/albert/issues/1050) but I | don't see a Mac binary download, so I assume it's not ready yet? | Although the issue was closed. | | Btw, the last commit is from on 9 Oct 2021. So maybe already | abandoned? | pluc wrote: | Albert - https://albertlauncher.github.io/ | | Synapse - https://launchpad.net/synapse-project | | fbrun - https://linux.die.net/man/1/fbrun | | rofi (my personal favourite) - https://github.com/davatorium/rofi | | gmrun - https://github.com/WdesktopX/gmrun | | krunner - https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner | | dmenu - https://tools.suckless.org/dmenu/ | | and shout out to Alfred for Mac - https://www.alfredapp.com/ | | map any of these to ctrl+space or super+space and never use the | start menu/icon launchers again (or don't run a desktop at all!) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-06-04 23:00 UTC)