elbey

A desktop app launcher implemented in Rust on the iced UI framework for Linux. Upon launch, the program lists all of the locally installed desktop apps with a filter widget set above. To launch, hit enter on the selected item, or use the mouse.

Status

The application is functional in that desktop apps can be launched from the dialog.

Tests

There are a few unit tests that exercise some basic functions.

Documentation

The rustdoc is available here: https://kgilmer.github.io/elbey

Get it

Elbey can be installed via cargo install elbey or from source in this git repository:

Build

cargo build --release

Launch/Test

./target/release/elbey

Install

cargo install --path .
which elbey # where cargo installed the binary

Credit

This program was inspired by the friendly docs of iced itself, other desktop app launchers such as pop-launcher and onagre, gauntlet, iced_launcher, and the greater Rust desktop cohort. Of course the venerable rofi must also be mentioned.

Project logo was created by Mira Gilmer.