New Extension: Force Quit App

[dannymout]

Description

New extension that allows the user to force quit any of the running apps on their system.

Screencast

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Checklist

• I read the extension guidelines
• I read the documentation about publishing
• I ran npm run build and tested this distribution build in Raycast
• I checked that files in the assets folder are used by the extension itself
• I checked that assets used by the README are placed outside of the metadata folder

[raycastbot]

Congratulation on your new Raycast extension! 🚀

We will review it shortly. Once the PR is approved and merged, the extension will be available on the Store.

[PineappleRind]

cool extension

[pernielsentikaer]

Hi @dannymout 👋

Thanks for taking the time to contribute! 🔥

Did you try out the other extensions (and built-in ways in Raycast to do this) before making this extension?

There is an extension called Kill Process which might most of the day do the same but also lists processes.

It's also possible directly from root search

Or from Switch Windows

Let me know what you think 🙂

[dannymout]

Definitely valid points, but the pain for me is that these other methods/extensions all require additional keystrokes.

In Kill Process when I search for an app name, I'll often get a list of like 10 other helper processes, especially for Electron based apps, and the app I'm actually trying to quit is all the way down the list.

Same with root search and switch windows. I have to open the action list, and then go all the way to the bottom to access force quit.

To me this warranted having a dedicated command, where I can just type the first few letters of the app and hit enter.

[pernielsentikaer]

I think that's a good reason @dannymout 🔥 Do you think you can add a file icon, as it's done with this one?

That would make it even more nice 🔥

[stale]

This pull request has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs in the next 7 days to keep our backlog clean 😊

[stale]

I'm closing this due to inactivity; feel free to comment in the thread when you're ready to continue working on it 🙂
You can also catch us in Slack if you want to discuss.

[pernielsentikaer]

awesome @dannymout