Albert plugin: Applications

Features

• Launch desktop applications.
• Choose the terminal used for the exposed script API.

API

• Exposes void runTerminal(const QString &script) const allowing other plugins to run a shell script in a terminal.

Platforms

• macOS
• UNIX

Technical notes

Due to the lack of a standardized terminal command execution mechanism the terminal scan is based on a hardcoded heuristic.

macOS

Performs manual scan for app bundles and uses Foundation NSBundle to fetch application data.

Linux/XDG

Uses the Desktop Entry Specification to find applications and parse application data.

The environment variable ALBERT_APPLICATIONS_COMMAND_PREFIX is a semicolon-separated list of tokens that will be prepended to the command line used to launch applications.