Notices

I've created a standalone app out of Nicolai's awesome app-search-widget with some modifications so that it can be hooked up to D-Bus scripts or hotkeys and used for keyboard shortcuts:

http://maemo.org/packages/view/app-search-app/

The app-search-app does not have a launcher icon and does not appear in the application list, but should be called from a script, like this:

The app UI is keyboard-friendly (discard the dialog with Backspace on the empty entry box, select with Enter and move between apps in the list with Left/Right and Up/Down while still being focused on the entry list). Useful with D-Bus scripts or something. I'm personally using modified-hildon-desktop with a slight modification (similar to this patch, only with "o" instead of "x" and the path to app-search-app instead of xterm) that maps the "o" key on the Desktop to this app, so I can just go to the Desktop, hit "o" and then start typing the app name and hit enter

And yes, the app is missing from the user/ section on purpose, and does not have an icon in the launcher, because it only makes sense if added to scripts (for everything else, you can use the original app-search-widget).

hi

these are some screenshots. something is wrong here.

The themeing is not applied in that screenshot. Are you running the app as root? Try running it as normal user directly from X Terminal.

yes, and now, running as normal user and it's working.
why you don't make any user interface for your application ?

If you really need to run it as root, use run-standalone.sh

This sounds good. Why not merge it in with the app-search-widget package? That way users could download one package which they could either choose to use the widget, or call from a script (or both).

Cause some users don't want a widget, but some devs want an app list

You wouldn't be forced to actually add the widget to your desktop. It just seems logical to me to have one package that does both things.

Supports portrait mode?

Thank you, this is great for my no widgets setup.