Which Launcher?

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So you’ve installed Haiku from a recently nightly (or sometime soon, the R1 beta) and you’re launching applications from the Deskbar menu (the blue ‘leaf’ menu). Perfect, but there are a few more options to investigate if you want to quickly launch your favourite programs.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/moochris/2017-01-22_which_launcher/
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Also I recommend this tool, which allows to make Haiku menu more usable.
http://besly.de/menu/search/archiv/sys/menusorter_eng.html

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Thanks for the overview, Chris!

Another interesting launcher is included with Brian Hill’s Einsteinium. Einsteinium keeps track what apps you’re using for how long a time. The included launcher has a list of all your apps (and documents, folders and queries!) and sorts them according to how often you use/launch them. Nifty!
It’s available from HaikuDepot.

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Thanks for the mention Humdinger! Unfortunately it looks like the HaikuDepot has an older version. The latest version will always be here:

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We can’t have that! Added to HaikuDepot with hrev50899. :slight_smile:

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Launchers available on the clasqm repo:

8Dock: https://depot.haiku-os.org/#/pkg/8dock/clasqm/0/9/5/-/2/x86_gcc2

BartLauncher: https://depot.haiku-os.org/#/pkg/bartlauncher/clasqm/1/0/-/-/3/x86_gcc2

HotLauncher: https://depot.haiku-os.org/#/pkg/hotlauncher/clasqm/1/2/0/-/3/x86_gcc2

LaunchBar: https://depot.haiku-os.org/#/pkg/launchbar/clasqm/1/1/-/-/2/x86_gcc2

LittleShell: https://depot.haiku-os.org/#/pkg/littleshell/clasqm/1/0/-/-/3/x86_gcc2

As always, these are ancient BeOS apps, and that they work at all is a testament to the Haiku devs’ ingenuity and persistence. Expect some rough edges. Also, nearly all the apps in my repo place a lowercased link to /system/bin, so you can start them from terminal.See http://clasquin-johnson.co.za/michel/haiku/blog/2016/making-haiku-even-more.html

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hi, nice overview. can you make this overview for the besly? Or can we use this for the besly?

http://www.besly.de

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Where, can I download the application HiQDock?

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Hi,

I don’t mind if the haiku-os.org owners are OK with that? It would be nice if it could reference the original post.

Thanks,
Chris

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Yes of course, haiku-os.org does not own copyright on things you submit to it. You are free to reuse and share it under any licence you want.

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Nice article, for the moment I’m still old school based :slight_smile: Deskbar and Tracker :slight_smile:

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Now that is interesting news!

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There’s also my old BeFull launcher, which worked on BeOS, and last time I tried, also worked on Haiku.

The full-screen source is there (no binary) and the replicant binary is there (no source.)

Maybe a bit ahead of its time, but I still prefer the “all on one screen” feel to Windows 8’s thing where you have to scroll horizontally. At least for how many apps I had in my menu.

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