Ueli: Features to Adopt from Launchy

[GovindKrishnan]

Hey @oliverschwendener ,

Since Launchy has been one great launcher of the past, I revisited it today to see what Ueli lacks that old Launchy has.

Here are a few stuffs I noticed when I tried Launchy on a Windows 10 PC.

[GovindKrishnan]

1. Opening "CMD" without typing "Command Prompt" in full

I noticed in #522 that you said Windows Search somehow magically knows that CMD is Command Prompt

However, Launchy knows it too without manually creating shortcuts as workaround.

Here's the screenshot for reference :

[GovindKrishnan]

2. "Run" Commands on Result [Shows additional actions on result item by pressing Tab]

Just like we have tab to autocomplete file paths, Launchy has these additional tasks when pressing tab

> I find this way more intuitive than having keyboard shortcuts which we should learn from github page. These shortcuts aren't visible anywhere on Ueli if I'm not mistaken.

By having such dropdown menu, it'll be easier.

Also, Launchy allows you to go to a website using a different browser if you don't want the default browser in a particular case.

It can be useful when we have a website that isn't supported on our default browser. Can switch between browsers quickly. This also works with the same "Tab menu".

> Reading Launchy's documentation, I guess this works with applications other than web browsers too. So, worth a research. Seeing Windows Run icon there, guess they are using Run commands.

[GovindKrishnan]

These 2 are the main stuffs I noticed & it works well on Windows 10.

Others too can join me here with similar features of good old Launchy.

There are a few more similar Launchy stuffs like F5 to rescan index (#508) and Persistent User Input showing previous search result (#385) which are already open issues here.

Do note that Launchy shows search result if you press down arrow key if there's persistent text (instead of modifying input as in Ueli) & also shows history of previous commands as dropdown menu when you press down arrow key when textfield is empty which is cooler than Shift + Up/Down of Ueli that shows only 1 previous command at a time.

It'll be helpful if Ueli adds a Keyboard shortcuts list to the software itself. But still, I prefer Launchy's tab menu method.

Moreover, Launchy's result items accept Mouse Interaction which is still a hot request here. (#393 & PR #468 @AmrBinBashir )

That's it! Since I'm a normal user who ain't programmer yet, looking forward for commits from you guys... 😄 @oliverschwendener Thanks!