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sfalken commented 1 year ago

sway-launcher-desktop seems to do what we need, with a minimum of fuss and muss, we just need to work on the default config a bit

m4u9 commented 1 year ago

Only thing I don't like about it is the clutter of entries although it gets a bit better once it memorizes the frequently used apps. Also no application icons is a bit sad, but it maybe fixable/configurable. That said it integrates with the overall vibe better than wofi does, so I wouldn't mind seeing it as default

mcepl commented 1 year ago

I know sway-launcher-desktop is tiny, but it is extremely limited. We need some GUI way how to communicate with users for some tools, which are useful for a user of the GUI destkop.

I would suggest rofi (package rofi-wayland for Sway), because it allows us to use many utils, which are helpful:

pinentry-rofi (https://github.com/plattfot/pinentry-rofi is not an ideal, because it requires Guille, but my https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/pinentry-rofi written in a plain bash is probably not mature enough)
startup menu (exactly what sway-launcher-desktop does)
nmcli-[wr]ofi for selection of Wifi

It is of course possible for the user to install his own modes for rofi:

rofi-pass (or any other front-end for the password management, perhaps not necessary, when we stay with the native Firefox credentials management)
rofi-calc https://github.com/svenstaro/rofi-calc
and many more user scripts https://github.com/davatorium/rofi/wiki/User-scripts

mcepl commented 11 months ago

Actually, https://git.sr.ht/~mcepl/pinentry-rofi has been working for me for the last months or so without problems. When https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1201564 gets resolved and we can enable those units per default, the whole things seems to work.

mcepl commented 11 months ago

I guess, again, I am the only who sees a problem here, so this could be probably closed.

m4u9 commented 11 months ago

we can leave it open, I won't object changing the launcher with something better, just send the PR first and we close this ticket afterwards. @sfalken since you were the one to suggest sway-launcher, what do you think?

sfalken commented 11 months ago

I have zero objection to a different launcher, if somebody wants to work something up. sway-launcher-desktop was just easy, I like easy.

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Launcher configuration #11