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List all applications installed with their icons #29

Open iamtekeste opened 9 years ago

iamtekeste commented 9 years ago

I am trying to build something like OSX's Spotlight app for Ubuntu. One of the things it should be able to do is search for applications installed in the system.

Please help me implement this or suggest a package that does that? Thank you.

forivall commented 9 years ago

The freedesktop.org Specifications should get you started. It defines where desktop environments look for the .desktop files, which should contain information about their icons, etc.

JoshTheDerf commented 8 years ago

@sharedmit Just for the record, I've already sort of done this. It's not yet complete or on GitHub, but should be soon. It can locate .desktop files and show their icons according to the theme. (The icon finder is a bit broken though.)

iamtekeste commented 8 years ago

@Tribex may be you should upload it on to Github, so that people could help out? :)

JoshTheDerf commented 8 years ago

@sharedmit Your wish has been granted: https://github.com/Tribex/Needle-Dash. Be warned, it's still a mess inside.