ozonos/atom-launcher

A simplified App Launcher without categorisation and with applications sorted by frequency

Atom Launcher

The Atom Launcher replaces the standard Gnome Shell AppView.

Features

• Show Apps sorted by frequency of use.
• Removes the standard groups of "Frequent" and "All" Apps

Compatibility

Gnome	Compatible
3.10	no
3.12	yes
3.14	yes
3.16	???

Installation

To install this extension, run the following commands in your Terminal:

git clone https://github.com/ozonos/atom-launcher.git
cd atom-launcher
make install

License

This project is licensed with GPL version 3 and later. See LICENSE for more details.

Changelog

• 0.1 - first Release

atom-launcher's Issues

Launcher crashes after installing something

Hello friends I noted that after you install something the launcher crashes and needs a shell restart to work again, it crashes into a empety screen with not any entry / menu item

Not working on 3.10 anymore

since the latest editions, atom-launcher doesn`t work on 3.10 anymore.

also, the 3.12 especific branch is now dead?

The overview mode darkening is imperfect.

A) It seems too dark; We can try decreasing by 1/3.
B) There is some stock Gnome way too strong radial gradient, which creates light elipse in the centre; We should make that effect subtler.

Atom Launcher Disabled (GTT)

Despite this: #14
'Sometimes' Atom Launcher is disabled by itself from the startup. Tried many ways to fix this when it happened, but haven't found one yet - so far. Tho, it not always happened.

Can't disable Atom Launcher

Sometimes you can't disable Atom Launcher from GTT.

There's a bug thrown too in Looking Glass.
It was someting with _redisplay not being a function, which happened sometime between GS 3.12 and 3.14 if i remember correctly. Still, i'm not 100% sure this is causing the bug.

I'll update this report when i know more.

Animate while opening dash

There is no animation while opening the dash. We should smoothly transition to the dash view.

The windows should smoothly fadeout and the dash should fadein with a duration of 300ms.

[Desktop launcher] Pressing the super key redirects one to the desktop.

And it should redirect one to the workpaces overview mode.

Launcher as a desktop.

The whole thing with an empty workspace in Gnome is such an outdated metaphor. To fix it what we can make is this - if the user gets to an empty workspace he doesn't get to stare at his wallpaper until he starts an app, but rather the app launcher. When he opens a window, the app launcher goes away. If he closes all the windows the app launcher appears again.
This also NEEDS an off switch, because people will very much frown at us if we don't add one and we don't want that to happen.
Can somebody please implement that, because starring at the wallpaper is counter productive. :P

Missing Closing Bracket in freqView.js on Line 89

Like mentioned in this Line Note: 20cd32c#freqview-js-P89

Generic App names

We need generic apps name. "Chromium" - "Web Browser", "gThumb" - "Image Viewer".

(I know this doesn't come under the remit of the launcher extension but posting it here in lieu of a better place I'm filling it here)

Gnome 3.16 support

Is there any news when this will be supported for 3.16?

[Desktop launcher] Clicking on the activities button / activating the top left hot corner redirects one to the desktop.

And what those should do is redirect one to the workspaces overview mode.

[Desktop launcher] Pressing escape twice redirects one to the desktop.

When in launcher mode pressing escape once redirects one to workspaces overview mode, which is OK. However pressing escape twice will redirect one to the plain desktop and that's not what we want.
Pressing escape more than one should not have any effect on the overview.

Breaks on Gnome Shell 3.12

Please confirm if you experience it and help to track down the bug if you are already on 3.12.

Text below dock in open launcher

Every time I open launcher there is some text below a dock. It looks pretty ugly.

Local install directory?

I have an issue about the install directory, from make install it will install to gnome shell root dir /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions which will need root access and users can't remove it from Gnome Tweak Tool. I would like to change it to local user's extension dir ~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/ but seeing as this extension and all of extensions on the extension set are intended for Ozon OS, it is making sense that it should be installed in root dir.

What do you guys think? I'm thinking of including both options to install in local and root dir. If we agreed on this, what is the default install action if we run make install? Local or root dir?

Can't Install

Runs fine without errrors but doesn't result in the laucnher extension being installed.

The "experimental-switch-workspace" branch doesn't work.

I take it this is the branch that should fix this issue:
#12
It says "Error loading extension."
Can we get it fixed @cldx @kyuucr?
I am willing to do any testing needed.
The issue is that the makefile does not copy that prefs.js and convenience.js in /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/

Atom dash doesn't work in GNOME 3.12

I cannot even enable it due to error in loading. I guess it's some API incompatibility.

Here is a screenshot showing the error message in looking glass,