First Release
This is the first release of Rocket, the new application launcher for KDE.
Rocket sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.
However, if you wish to fire up a program at the very end of your extremely long list, you can just type its name in the search bar, and it will pop up at the first place -- if not selected, just press tab to select and enter to launch it. Even searching for keywords such as "file manager", "web browser" works!
For keyboard users, keyboard navigation is also supported, just press tab, and navigate using the arrow keys and enter.
It's also fully customizable, you can select your own background and the colours the program uses. For the background place an image named "wallpaper.jpeg" in ~/.config/rocket; for the rest open the respective configuration files.
You can find an installer script in the attached zip which installs the following files to your home directory:
- ~/.local/bin/rocket, the compiled binary to launch Rocket
- ~/.local/share/applications/rocket.desktop, the corresponding .desktop file
- ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/rocket.svg, the icon for Rocket
- ~/.config/rocket/wallpaper.jpeg, the default wallpaper
To use the installer, make it executable via chmod +x install.sh and run it (./install.sh). As the installer will notify you, you might need to add ~/.local/bin to you PATH environment variable, if it's not there already.
To uninstall Rocket, just remove these files, and the ~/.config/rocket folder entirely.
The new release containing the new feature picking the system's wallpaper as a background has been added to this package.