Slingscold

Slingscold is a lightweight application launcher similar to Launchpad in macOS X. It is also Wayland compatible.

This project was originally forked from Slingshot from the elementary team:

• https://launchpad.net/slingshot

Compilation

1. Install dependencies:

• For Ubuntu:

   $ sudo apt-get install cmake libgee-0.8-dev libgnome-menu-3-dev cdbs valac libvala-*-dev libglib2.0-dev libwnck-3-dev libgtk-3-dev

• For Fedora:

   $ sudo dnf install cmake libgee-devel gnome-menus-devel cdbs vala libvala-devel glib-devel libwnck-devel gtk3-devel

2. Create a build folder:

   $ mkdir build

3. Compile Slingscold:

   $ cd build
   $ cmake ..
   $ make

4. Install Slingscold in the system:

   $ sudo make install

Post Install

Once installed set shortcut key to access Slingscold.

• System -> Preferences -> Hardware -> Keyboard Shortcuts > click Add
• Name: Slingscold
• Command: slingscold

Now assign it a shortcut key, such as CTRL+SPACE.

Note: Some themes don't have the 'application-default-icon'. Slingscold needs to have this icon, so please download it from the FlatWoken icon pack and execute the following commands:

# cp application-default-icon.svg /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/
# gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor

FORK changes

• The background is changed to the desktop background found in gsettings but blurred, if no background is found in gsettings, take screenshot and blur that.
• The searchbar style has been "flattened" to look like MacOS.
• The page indicator has been enlarged.
• Grid size and spacing has been adjusted.
• More Keyboard events added.
• Fix crash bug.
• DBus support: Keep instance running in the background for better startup times.
• Budgie: Applet startup button has been added.