A config file was added (see Configuration). At the moment only icon loading is configured here.
Launcher is forced into floating mode on tiling window managers to work like rofi etc.
This is a Program Launcher written in Rust. For the moment it uses multiple different UI toolkits, namely: - [x] egui - [ ] iced
I started using egui for this, which is a great toolkit, but it has some limitations. So I thought I'd try some other toolkits. This I think is a reasonably simple UI, but with some quirks (like the keyboard scrolling) which I can use to compare ease of use and feature sets.
There are several reasons I wanted a new program launcher:
Most good program launchers like Rofi, Fuzzel etc. only support either X11 or wayland. Since I still sometimes switch between X11 and Wayland I wanted a launcher, that ran on both systems
There are some cool projects like Wofi that aim to port X11 programs to Wayland. However I found at least Wofi to have some bugs with my window setup.
I tend to take on huge projects which never end. I saw this as a comparatively simple project.
Configuration is now found in $HOME/.config/aphorme/config.toml
Options for the gui.
Enable or disable icon loading.
Due to synchronous file loading the startup times are very slow. This can be fixed by either asynchronously loading icons, using a faster method of icon discovery (the library I am using seems to has to execute gsettings every time, which is very slow)
The egui ScrollArea does not allow for movement using the arrow keys. This means I had to implement that myself. The method I chose (just remembering the index) does however overwrite the scrolling using the mousewheel/touchpad gestures etc. This means I had to implement the scrolling with the scrollwheel myself, which 'fights' against the default scrolling. This causes minor visual glitches but so far no actual bugs