First of all, I didn’t run Albert for real since Gentoo still hasn’t had dev-qt/qtcore:5 stabilized, 4.8.5 is the currently stable version. Well, even it had, I wouldn’t jumped onto Qt5 yet.
Once again, I saw this good looking fellow on Arch Linux forums, the author’s post claimed the following features:
- Run applications
- Open files
- Open bookmarks in chromium
- Calculate math expressions
- Search web for things
- Fuzzy search
- Modify the actions taken by pressing the modifier keys
- Customize look and feel with different styles (or by writing your own qstylesheets)
Among these, the calculation is the only one that really amaze me, even though I normally wouldn’t take a second look at a program launcher like this, well, rich. Too many stuff that I don’t need. For all what I am looking for a program launcher is, simply, running the program I ask. That’s why I am still using old bashrun 0.16.1 four years later, even after I switched to dwm, I keep it.
Nevertheless, if you have Qt5 and you happen to need a launcher, Albert might work for you. It’s written in C++ by Manuel Schneider under GPL (according to the PKGBUILD), currently version 0.6.
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