Integrate Yubnub into Launchy with Yubby

By Josh | June 16, 2008

Launchy has been my program launcher of choice for a long time now, and I really haven’t looked into the plugins that are available for it. I decided to take a look around the forums of Launchy to see what plugins were available, and which ones looked interesting. I came across a plugin called Yubby, which integrates the many commands from Yubnub into Launchy.

I had never bothered using Yubnub before since it seemed like a waste of time to me. I still don’t use it that much, but some of the commands are interesting. Yubnub has many commands that make it possible to make quick searches, or to convert files, etc. This is all done through the internet. You can think of it as a command line for the web. Integrating this into Launchy really helps to give Launchy a much wider scale of interactivity with the internet.

The plugin is great, but I do have one issue that is quite a major one in my opinion. The issue is when I type in a command that requires a URL, Launchy will think that the command is only a URL. Therefore, Launchy will try to open the command as if it were a webpage. I’ve started to look through the source code of Yubby, but I haven’t had much time to see if I can find the problem. I’m thinking that it would be much easier to type the command, then press tab and type the URL.

If you are using Launchy, then I’d definitely recommend giving Yubby a try. It would at least add to the possible commands that you have with Launchy, even if you wouldn’t use that many of them.