Slicky 1.0
Slicky's first release. He floats above your windows, hops around on a
randomised timer, watches your pointer, and opens the apps you hand him.
Install — download Slicky.zip, unzip, drag Slicky.app to /Applications.
Signed and notarised, so it opens like any other app. Requires macOS 14 or later;
universal (Apple Silicon and Intel).
He starts in the bottom-right of your main screen. There's no Dock icon and no
menu bar item to look for — walk over and right-click him.
What he does
- Click and double-click open the apps you bind to them, with the app's
icon held over his head and a ring of light so you can see it coming - Drag an app onto him to rebind: he scribbles out the old entry, tears the
page off a notepad and eats it. Plain drop sets click, ⌥ sets double-click,
⌘ adds to his right-click menu - Right-click for the menu — apps, jump, say hi, take a selfie, settings
- Seven colour presets, or pick his shell, accent and glow yourself
- Selfies: a transparent cut-out of him alone, saved to
~/Downloads - Optional typing dodge — he hops aside when the text cursor lands under
him. Off by default; needs Accessibility permission, uses only the fact that
a key was pressed, never what - Updates himself from these releases, and only accepts builds signed by the
same developer
He has no Dock icon and no menu bar item — the robot is the interface. Idle
drawing runs at 15fps and stops entirely when he's hidden behind something.
Source, and a longer story about why transparent windows and drag-and-drop
fight each other, in the README.