j0ru
Support more applicatoin sources
Hey there,
Your launcher is one of the best looking. Really like it.
The only issue is it doesn't find 90% of my apps.
Apps installed with .desktop files aren't discovered, whch would be almost all apps installed via FlatPak.
Hey, thanks for your feedback! Tbh flatpaks weren't really on my radar, but I'm currently reworking the application discovery and execution interface and will keep your suggestion in mind!
Cool. Pretty sure if .desktop apps become searchable, flatpak installed apps will just work
Unfortunately it will take a while before I can add this feature, I'm currently pretty busy with university and when I implement it, I want to do it right
+1 for desktop file support. I cannot launch certain programs which requires flags on wayland to open (such as vscode). Desktop files support or some kind of config file where I could define flags for certain apps would be very good as this is a beautiful launcher! I'd contribute, but as I can understand you have a vision in mind on how exactly you want to do the implementation, so I'd rather just wait :)
I might be (very) lazy. But I would love it if kickoff could start programs via .desktop files. As that seems to be the standard most UI's use.
I understand you do not have time to add this. Would you be open to a PR in the future? The default behavior would then search .desktop files then path.
Nothing bad about beeing a bit lazy ^^ Kickoff already has a kind of support for dot-desktop files via the stdin parsing. After a few people kept asking, I implement a parser, that turns the desktop files into the stdin format for kickoff which you can find here.
ahhh that is perfect this fits well into my sway config: kickoff-dot-desktop | kickoff --from-stdin
Thanks a lot for building that parser!