qdmenu

A dmenu like launcher program written in QT/QML. It can be used as a drop-in replacement for dmenu for example in i3 and
other tiling window manager. There is a PKGBUILD package submitted to AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qdmenu/)

Dependencies

• QT 5.10+
• qt5-svg, qt5-declarative, qt5-base

Features

• Fast & simple
• *.desktop file parsing and displaying:
  • Locale aware name display if defined
  • Users local and systemwide applications/ folders are merged, systemwide desktop files are overriden with the users files
  • Icon display
  • Desktop files with NoDisplay=true are filtered out
  • Desktop files with Terminal=true are launched in the default terminal
• Searching:
  • Searching filters the list on: binary name, name and comment from desktop file
  • If no results are found the command is interpreted and executed as-is
• Keyboard driven:
  • Escape quits
  • Arrow keys move the selection
  • Enter starts the given command / selected app
  • Mouse also supported

Screenshots

Main Screen:

Searching:

Contribution

This is my first public project on github, i know the code lacks comments but i think its readable.
There are some coding guidelines which i tried to follow in this project, the most important ares:

• 80 column width
• 4 spaces and no tabs
  But theese arent mandatory either, if you contribute please try to keep your code readable and if something
  is not clear then put a comment on it, thnx ;)

TODO

• Config file in ~/.local/config/qdmenu/config, with config options:
  • Icon / Grid item size
  • Background color, text color, text background
  • Custom unknown icon
  • Custom binary icon
  • display NoDisplay entries true/false
  • display plain binaries by default true/false
  • modifier keys remap

• Add modifier key for sudo/gksu/kdesu starting
• Add modifier key for switching *.desktop file listing mode ( currently implemented ) and raw binary listing mode