What is the Difference b/w ueli & other search indexers?

oliverschwendener / ueli

Cross-Platform Keystroke Launcher

https://ueli.app

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What is the Difference b/w ueli & other search indexers? #140

Closed Droyk closed 5 years ago

Droyk commented 5 years ago

For e.g. khanhas/ueli, Keypirinha, Cerebro, Wox

What's the main difference b/w them? Is there is any comparison table?

I mean they have almost the same UI providing the same thing, a search indexer to search everything there is.

alanaasmaa commented 5 years ago

Frameworks, performance, plugins etc..

You have to test each of them to find best one. Currently i'm using Wox. But i'm waiting refactored ueli, then i probably move here.

I'm sure i will start using refactored ueli because:

Typescript
Vue
Plugins

I hope @oliverschwendener will release some pre release soon!!!

Droyk commented 5 years ago

I'm waiting refactored ueli, then I probably move here.

Why not use khanhas/ueli it's more like an updated repo with more features? or am I missing something? possible to enlighten me?

alanaasmaa commented 5 years ago

@Droyk I have tried also this one, but it felt not right. I have no good reason.

Droyk commented 5 years ago

but it felt not right

Possible to elaborate a little? specifically, what you did not like about it?

oliverschwendener commented 5 years ago

They are all kind of similar. Considering features, there are definitely differences, go check by yourself which launcher comes with what kind of feature set.

Here are some differences that come to my mind:

ueli & khanhas/ueli both use the Electron framework, and this could be a reason NOT to use them. Read more here.
ueli & Cerebro run on Windows & macOs
keypirinha, khanhas/ueli & Wox only run on Windows
ueli does not support 3rd party plugins, the others do
khanhas/ueli does not have any GUI to tweak the settings/configuration (as far as I know)

At the end of the day it depends on your personal taste and your needs.

Does this answer your questions?

alanaasmaa commented 5 years ago

The electron IS the reason for me why i like ueli. And plugins are the reason i wait the big upgrade.

I code mostly JS and i have enough RAM so i would love to make little plugins to make my dev life easy.

Im sure some of them will help others too

oliverschwendener commented 5 years ago

And plugins are the reason i wait the big upgrade.

Then I'm sorry to tell you that there are no plans yet to support plugins. :(

alanaasmaa commented 5 years ago

@oliverschwender call them mods and figure something out :)

But srlsy.. why not :( I have misunderstood something then.

oliverschwendener commented 5 years ago

@alanaasmaa Let's have this discussion in #96