Expansion Packs
Start with a working snippet library instead of an empty one. Six curated packs ship with the app, 46 snippets in total:
| Pack | Snippets | Sample triggers |
|---|---|---|
| AI Chatbot & Prompt Engineering | 10 | :airole :aixplain :aibug |
| Developer & Engineering | 10 | :gcm :glog :pydef |
| Artist, Designer & Creator | 7 | :palette :aspect :midprompt |
| Everyday Productivity & Symbols | 7 | :stamp :iso :bullets |
| Customer Support & Sales | 6 | :cshi :csbug :csfollowup |
| System Admin & DevOps | 6 | :sysinfo :curljson :k8spods |
Open Expansion Packs in the snippet manager, tick what you want, and load. Two rules govern the merge:
- Your triggers win. A pack snippet whose trigger already exists is skipped, so your snippets are never overwritten and re-loading a pack is idempotent.
- OS filtering. Snippets declare a platform (
all,linux,windows); incompatible ones are left out unless you untick the filter.
Packs are plain JSON. Drop your own into ~/.config/flitkey/packs/ (Linux) or %APPDATA%\flitkey\packs\ (Windows) and they appear alongside the built-in ones; a user pack sharing a pack_id with a built-in one replaces it.
Redesigned interface
The snippet manager has been rebuilt around a calmer, macOS-inspired layout: cards instead of boxed group frames, a single toolbar row for search and actions, a borderless snippet table with alternating rows, and an empty state for new libraries. Edit, Enable/Disable, and Delete now stay disabled until a snippet is selected — previously they were always clickable and silently did nothing. Dialogs pick up consistent spacing, headings, and placeholder hints.
Chrome extension
A Manifest V3 browser extension lives in chrome_extension/, sharing the importer and placeholder logic with the desktop app. Load it unpacked from chrome://extensions/ — see CHROMEWEBSTORE.md.
Also in this release
- AUR
PKGBUILDand Flathub manifest, plus a multi-channel distribution guide. - App icon now sourced from the raster logo, with fallbacks across the Debian, Windows, and runtime icon paths (Qt SVG support is not guaranteed to be present at runtime).
Install
Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/Pop!_OS)
sudo apt install ./flitkey_0.5.0_all.debWindows 10/11 — run FlitKey-Setup-0.5.0-x64.exe. The installer is not code-signed yet, so SmartScreen shows an "Unknown Publisher" warning: choose More info → Run anyway.
Full changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.0