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onagre-launcher / onagre

A general purpose application launcher for X and wayland inspired by rofi/wofi and alfred
MIT License
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Option to include binaries from `$PATH` in same search as desktop entries #56

Closed simvux closed 8 months ago

simvux commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I mainly use binaries in $PATH to run my programs, but I'd like to start using desktop entries as well due to the inclusion of pretty icons. However; switching to a launcher that uses desktop entries causes all of my custom scripts and wrappers to no longer appear in search.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to be able to have both desktop entries and binaries in $PATH to show up by default in the same search. The ideal would be to also filter out those binaries that also have a desktop entry, so that there won't be any duplicates.

Describe alternatives you've considered Alternatively; the run prefix could be set up to provide search results from $PATH. This might already be a feature but the run prefix doesn't work for me for some reason so I wouldn't know...

jokeyrhyme commented 1 year ago

I think the idea here would be to add a pop-launcher plugin that looks up PATH executables for you

Interesting that there isn't already something to do this: https://github.com/lucas-dclrcq/awesome-pop-launcher

The included/official run plugin doesn't seem to do any searching or completion, it just takes anything after the keyword and executes: https://github.com/pop-os/launcher/blob/master/plugins/src/terminal/mod.rs

oknozor commented 8 months ago

Closing this since I could be implemented in a plugin.