Chris Messina

On 10/23/2023 at 9:34 AM, json12 said:

This has stopped working for me. Is anyone else having this issue? I can see list of options to but when I select in Alfred, nothing happens.

Which version of macOS are you on? 

On Sonoma, when I attempted to use the workflow, I was shown this permission dialog and accepted the request, and it worked fine.

Perhaps there's a permission issue?

Ah ok — will try that out. I didn't realize those options existed! 

Two suggestions:

1. Add a keyboard modifier for ⌘ when an "Eject" command is chosen to edit the preferences (to make these options more discoverable — similar to holding ⌘ when viewing a snippet).

2. Perhaps unnecessary, but I'm not sure you need to mention DVDs? When was the last time Apple shipped a computer with a DVD drive? Similarly, are "USB flash drives" different than "external USB drives"? Just seems like this copy could be modernized/updated/clarified.  

I know that the latest version of Alfred has a new ejection framework, but it's not working for me. 

I'm on Alfred 5.1 Build 2134.

Here's what Alfred sees:

Here's what's in Finder — BunnyCrunch is an external Samsung SSD. In fact, none of my SSDs, which are connected by USB-C, seem to be detected by Alfred.

As seen in Alfred 5.1 [2133], some workflows that have long descriptions and options (e.g. ChatFred) cause text to not wrap or be cut off:

Related topic: 

The Alfred Gallery is such a significant update to the Alfred Ecosystem — but it seems like the benefit of maintaining and keeping Workflows up to date still isn't sufficiently supported in the Workflows area. At a minimum, it seems like the number of available updates should be made more visible in the default options:

Additionally, when there is >1 update and a group of Workflows are selected, it would be nice if it were possible to batch update them from their context menu:

No doubt there might be other ways to improve Workflow updates, but these two stood out to me.

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Awesome, thanks! Want to share a screenshot of your tweaks?  

Oh nice! Glad to see it! 

Josh Miller, Arc's founder and CEO, released a new video today in it — including a screenshot of a spec from Dec 2019 where he explicitly cites AlfredApp.com as an influence for Arc's command palette. 🥰

On 10/18/2022 at 4:31 PM, vitor said:

The Arc browser does not implement the necessary AppleScript support. That is something which needs to be addressed from their side. It should be possible, seeing as they’re a Chromium-based browser. Once (if) they make it available (and assuming they don’t change the dictionary) it will work automatically.

There is richer AppleScript support as of Arc v0.85 — so now additional Alfred⬌ Arc integration can be explored! 

On 12/7/2022 at 2:43 AM, vitor said:

If it’s just for browser history, it might be possible since Arc is a Chromium Browser. You can make a feature request on the most complete workflow I know for it.

Now that Arc has a richer Applescript featureset, I have submitted a feature request for that Workflow.

Ok, good to hear. Would be absolutely stoked if Alfred supported a more capable theming system — and that the new Alfred Gallery for Themes could be the place for such themes to be distributed. But I understand that may be a low priority for you.

I like the themes I've created, but there are so many launchers now that have really pushed the UI design boundaries that it'd be great for Alfred to provide more support for our community's visual design creativity!

Not sure if this feedback is for @Mr Pennyworth specifically, but he's mixed HTML and Markdown in his Cleanshot Workflow readme, which appears incorrectly in Alfred. Given that self-hosted Workflows will appear in the Gallery, I wonder if there should be either greater guidelines/requirements for the legibility of readme files or some other way to improve the appearance of this kind of documentation, like more Markdown support in Alfred's processor?

Here's how it looks on Github:

Now that the Alfred Gallery is live in Early Access, can I presume (hope?) that there will be a section dedicated to sharing Themes? 

Here's the Workflow in case this helps: https://github.com/chrismessina/alfred-lzfse-toolkit

I've created a Workflow to extract the contents of .lzfse files, however I need help:

1. getting the original file extension of the compressed file
2. appending it to the extracted file
3. bonus: prettify and sort the contents of any .json files

Here's my script (/bin/zsh) so far:

# filepaths from ARGV
for file in $@; do
	# Extract the filename without the extension
	filename=${file%.lzfse}

	# Extract the contents of the lzfse file
	lzfse -decode -i "$file" -o "$filename"
done

For the JSON transformation, I typically open the file in Atom (RIP) and run the "JSONify JavaScript Object Literal and Sort and Prettify" command in the Pretty JSON package, and then open the results in TextBuddy to Sort Ascending (Ignoring Case).

I'd love to be able to use a Universal Action to do all of this! 
 

14 minutes ago, ystian said:

is there a way to let alfred change from the light version to the dark theme on its own?

Yes — but you'll need to toggle your system setting to Light or Dark mode and then update Alfred's theme to whichever theme you want for that mode. Not super intuitive — but it works!

I've noticed this a few times, but just reporting now. It appears that if my system theme changes to Dark Mode and then I activate Alfred Universal Actions using a hotkey (rather than activating the Alfred command palette), the Universal Actions palette doesn't update to Dark Mode.

If I dismiss this UI and then activate Universal Actions again, the correct theme will be applied.

Ok, thanks again! @Vero my Eject setting was set to this: 

I've changed it to "Removable media".

I often use the Eject All command to eject my external SSDs. However, after updating to macOS Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400) and running Alfred 5.0.5 (Build 2096), when I use the command, I get errors for many more disks, many of which probably shouldn't be ejected, including my startup disk! 

Did something change?

Yup — restarted and it's fine now! Carry on! 

I will point out that the action in Alfred is called "Reveal in Finder" but the service is called "Show in Finder". Very very minor though! 😉

It could be that I'm experiencing system instability. 

This may not have just been introduced, but when I attempt to "Reveal in Finder" by holding ⌘ when I have an app selected, I get this error:

Quote

 

The “Show in Finder” service could not be used because the “Finder” application could not be opened.

Try reinstalling “Finder.”

 

I'm on macOS Ventura 13.0 (22A380).

Got it — yes, a blog post on how teams are using Alfred private would be super useful!