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App launchers with interactive extensions like Alfred & Raycast? (lemmy.ml)

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I did some searching and many users recommend Rofi but looking at man rofi-script it seems to just be a list picker. You pick something from the a list and only one thing runs. On Alfred and Raycast you can have interactive extensions which are essentially keyboard navigable UIs.

One example looking at the Alfred workflow gallery is Reddit Browser, where you select a subreddit from a list and then it shows of lists of posts, you can press cmd enter to go back & select another subreddit.
Another one lets you ask questions for chatgpt and shows answers right in the launcher (I'm not necessarily looking for AI extensions).
This Raycast extension lets you search and create Notion pages.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Annoyingly Raycast is what's keeps me from moving to Linux fully. As a developer and productivity enthusiast, Raycast really became the center of everything I do.

Would be very interesting to write some kind of port that can also use these extensions, since they're all open source and based on web technology (React).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Have u considered writing them?

Anyway, ULauncher looks very good to me as a Raycast alternative.