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With the introduction of #88 , we'll need to have friendly deprecation notices. Let's use this ticket to see what we want for future alerts of this type.

Ideally, I'd like to see something like create-react-app.

Plugins API currently makes a call to output(). This won't make sense going forward should we implement action-based commands. Renaming to execute may fix the issue since it may not be "outputting" anything.

output should be kept and update to route to the new execute method.

We need to write a spec for the reducer: app/renderer/src/reducers/selectedIndex.js

Test file: __tests__/app/renderer/src/reducers/selectedIndex.js

I already found it mildly frustrating to try to inspect the application through webkit's devtools

I think you can see why 😜

This also affects my train of thought when checking through the state

with results

without results

We should check out the possibility to:

• have dev tools open (by default) on a separate window
• when dext is on dev mode; it is open at all times (even if this requires a configured flag on the electron-build)

Update .editorconfig to allow trimming trailing white-space for .md files

Default scrollbar is too big and clunky.

When viewing a long list of results, keyboard up and down should scroll the window if necessary.

Sometimes you already have cmd + space already registered to another app. Allow a way for the user to change their key bindings to another combination.

Alfred has the ability to execute alternate command if holding down the alt button.

This will be a new property for each item.

"mods": {
    "alt": {
        "arg": "https://google.com/",
        "subtitle": "Visit Google"
    },
    "cmd": {
        "arg": "https://facebook.com/",
        "subtitle": "Visit Facebook"
    },
}

• Holding down alt will trigger mods.alt and display the given subtitle
• Holding down cmd will trigger mods.cmd and display the given subtitle
• Not holding anything down will trigger the regular action and subtitle

https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/devtools-extension.md

A common use for a calculator is taking the number and copying it into some form or document. If I use dext as a calculator this isn't possible as clicking away from dext erases the answer.

Alfred themes doesn't follow CSS specifications. We'll need to provide a layer to map their structure over to our theming API.

Allow items to open an extended details/panel for displaying rich content similar to Spotlight (reference screenshot below).

May be of use for some plugins such as dext-giphy-plugin to display a quick view of the larger image.

Limit the rate of executing queries to prevent multiple child processes from being forked.

Looking at either ava or jest for testing.

Currently working with a designer to create an icon for the app.

This makes it difficult to write some snapshot tests.

_Reference:_ <ResultList /> produces children contained of <ResultItemContainer /> which is connected to a redux store.

Will keep this open for discussion on what options are available aside from a single root-level connected container.

A bit going back on my words (#11) but it may make more sense to renamed execute to search.

This would allow us to use execute in the future for executing a specific item.

Example would be something like this:

module.exports = {
  search: q => {
    items: [], // list of ietms
  },
  execute: item => {
    // executes for the selected item...
  },
};

This will be a breaking change but since it's still early, we should migrate and just alias/deprecate execute.

I've extracted the screen-saver to a standalone module: https://github.com/vutran/screen-saver

Core plugin needs to be updated to utilize this module.

Screensaver works when booting the app in development mode but when starting from an asar archive, it will not execute, probably due to asar being a virtual directory.

May be related to: electron/electron#2708

More info: http://electron.atom.io/docs/tutorial/application-packaging/#executing-binaries-inside-asar-archive

Queries can be cached for a short duration to prevent forking of new process too often. Plugins can expect to have their own cache store.

We need to write tests for these action creators:

• resetDetails()
• closeDetails()
• openDetails()

Test file: __tests__/app/renderer/src/actions/creators.js

When the app starts, the window should open by default.

Some titles gets too long using the dext-hackernews-plugin so we need to apply the -webkit-line-clamp css property to the resultTitle class. Refer to resultSubtitle for example.

Considering adding support for yarn cause this thing is ridiculous fast! We'll need to commit the generated yarn.lock file as well as updating documentations for installing with yarn.

TBD.

it's only natural that the app hides/closes when the user hits ESC,
dext doesn't do this atm

I'd like to contribute to getting this working on windows. What do you think the biggest hurdles will be for getting this to work cross platform?

Whenever the window is shown, query and results should be cleared.

Add this badge to the README file:

I think that it is time that we start considering setting NODE_PATH to set a specific folder as the source of truth for loading modules, beyond the node_modules folder.

The aim is to the have the following (example)

before

import paths from '../../../utils/paths'

after

import paths from 'core/utils/paths'

open for discussion on what to use. ideally creating a definition file for TypeScript in the dext-core-utils repo could be a great start for us.

Some people just prefer sharp corners.

When typing, display some info on what the user is currently doing. (Example: which plugin filter is it searching, etc.)

I installed dext with npm install dext -g, and for some reason I can't get it to open. I changed the Spotlight shortcut to Alt+Cmd+Space, and I even tried restarting my mac to see if it would work. Also, I don't have Alfred or any other launcher installed.

Since the introduction of #52 , we need to update the docs to reflect the new query method.

When using the clipboard functionality, it is hard to know if it had actually been executed. We need some sort of indicator that an item has been copied to the clipboard.

Indentation is weird on app/renderer/index.html

Create a core plugin that interfaces with dext-core-utils to allow updating configurations via the Dext Bar.

App may not be necessarily targeted for developers in the end so we can move the dext package manager to a separate module. Leaving this open to allow further discussion.

• Retain support for regular file paths and URL's
• Add support for placeholder letter icon with a background color

Provide a core extension to create internal plugins that can return items based on the global query. This will allow us to create a calc by evaluating the full query (eg: 1+1) without a necessary keyword.

Even though I have a plugin disabled (e.g dext-giphy-plugin), I can still query to it because of its existence in .dext/plugins

So this is what my config.json looks:

{
    "theme": "dext-predawn-theme",
    "hotKey": "alt+space",
    "plugins": []
}

Dext should be aware of which plugins are enabled/disabled (not sure if it is already atm) by checking what is in the plugins key of the config