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Here are a bunch of similar tools which are “fairly available” open source tools (I think they’re all FOSS):
cerebro
github.com/emgram769/lighthouse.git
ulauncher.io (I’m using this right now on my bspwm project)
kupfer (in repos)
synapse (in repos)
rofi (in repos)Many are extremely resource light.
If we continue this trend, why not use dmenu? It already comes with antiX, no need to “search” for other options. But this is not the point of the applauncher.py development.
We know there are options out there, and probably much better than anything that can be cooked up in limited time. If the user who installs antiX wants something better, I am sure they can find and add their favorite launchers, and it will be even easier thanks to your post, but be sure that it will add extra dependencies into the antiX system. We don’t want that for the antiX official ISO. It is already difficult to cut down antiX to a CD size ISO as BobC has already proven, why add more bloat to the installer?
The objective with this applauncher.py is a very VERY lightweight app search and launcher. Can you tell me that any of the previously mentioned launcher occupy LESS than 50 KBytes, or like the current version, less than 10 KBytes? This is a simple launcher to view and search for all installed apps on the system in a very User-friendly way (not like dmenu, that most newbies will be frightened about). If a user is not happy with it, they can search for a “better” one, but with this size, this applauncher.py can already be added to the next antiX 19 ISO barely taking up any space.
antiX Live system enthusiast.
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