polyvertex

Fair enough, thanks for taking the time to answer

The question was not much about "new release" posting, more about spreading the word about a new project. And news could be written in a more "creative" way.

I asked the original question because a one shot news will not necessary gets "enough" attention, depending on the time or the day it has been posted for example.

Also I've read that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11237340

That's right, with the vanilla ReadTheDocs theme (no variation).

Site and documentation written in reST and built with Sphinx. Details: http://keypirinha.com/#about-this-documentation

Thanks for the nice feedback :)

Sorry I forgot to mention that. More precisely: Windows 64-bit (Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 or 10)

Thanks for pinning one of the points of Keypirinha :)

I've been a long time and happy user of Launchy. It's a great tool and you might have noticed the small tribute to it in Keypirinha by using the term "Catalog" to name its internal database :)

Keypirinha is more modern than Launchy in many ways and integrates better in recent Windows platforms (for example I've had troubles due to 64-bit platforms with Launchy; items not found or not launchable, ...). The search accuracy is very much improved as well. You can have machine and/or user-specific configuration in a portable way. In addition to that, Keypirinha is more easily extensible, it embeds a Python interpreter to load its plugins (whereas you had to compile a C++ plugin to do the same job with Launchy; I wasn't happy with the unofficial Launchy-Python plugin). That gives the user the power to modify the existing official plugins (they are open-source), or to create new plugins that fit her needs (that slowly leads us towards your "searching scope" question).

Keypirinha is also very young compared to venerable Launchy so its plugins catalog has yet to be "flourished".

Hope that answers your question regarding Keypirinha vs. Launchy.

Regarding the "searching scope" question, please follow the discussion on GitHub at: https://github.com/Keypirinha/Keypirinha/issues/3

Wox offers more exotic features, but to be fair is also way less efficient when it comes to search accuracy, speed, memory footprint and battery friendliness.

Different purpose. Everything rocks at finding files and is complementary to Keypirinha, which rocks at adapting to your needs. As explained in an other comment, Keypirinha is way more than about launching apps and documents.

Incorrect! You don't get the benefits of Keypirinha's scoring system, which makes it far more efficient than Windows' native feature. Also, if you wish to perform more exotic tasks like launching a PuTTY/FileZilla/WinSCP session directly, you would be on your own.