July Customization Release

This updated Release introduces a new setting as an additional way to customize Rocket!
The tight layout setting -- if turned on -- moves all items to the centre on the last page (unless the user is searching). If turned off, all elements are lined up from the top.

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You can get the new binaries from the KDE store: store.kde.org/p/1507169/.
Please do so, so that I know how many people are using Rocket!

May Customization Release 2

This updated Release introduces the selection color as an additional way to customize Rocket!
The selection color -- as the name suggests -- is the color Rocket uses to highlight elements during keyboard navigation. However, if the boxed layout is disabled (unticked Enable Boxes in RocketDesigner or by setting enable_boxes to false in ~/.config/rocket/rocketstyle manually), Rocket uses this color for the color indicators for better visibility and harmony too.
Apart from that, all 1px boundaries have been removed.

May Customization Release

This new Release of Rocket brings some additional features and improvements such as:

• The boxes around the icon grids can now be turned off. In that case a filter using the base color will be applied to the background. This is necessary in order to keep the icon names readable.
• The background can now be blurred.
• Fixed a bug, where pressing esc did not close Rocket.

The Great Release

This release of Rocket introduces a lot of improvements and convenient features!

New features are:

• Rocket can now be launched with the Meta/Super/Win button! For this, a dbus-launcher is provided and installed with the installer script.
• Rocket now automatically closes if the window loses focus (e.g. if the user switches to another application via Alt+Tab).
• Rocket now only allows to be run in a single instance, and closes if it detects a new one = same shortcut for opening and closing!
• Rocket now ships with Rocket Designer to facilitate customization.
• The startup animation speed has been increased.
• Some bugs have also been fixed, and the installer script has been improved.

Inverted Scrolling

Rocket now supports inverted scrolling by setting the variables inverted_scrolling_y or inverted_scrolling_y to true in the config file (~/.config/rocket/rocketstyle).
If you have Rocket already installed, it suffices to replace the binary in ~/.local/bin (or wherever you have Rocket installed).

Important Bugfix

This update fixes a bug where Rocket cannot pick the current wallpaper from /.config/plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc, and thus could not keep up sometimes with wallpaper changes.
Note that Plasma wallpaper packages are not supported, only image files (such as .jpeg, .png, .svg etc.) are.
If you are an old user, it suffices to grab the executable and replace the old one in ~/.local/bin/ (or wherever you have Rocket installed).

Vertical Grid and Wallpaper Grabber Release

This release of Rocket contains two more feature added to the previous version.
First, Rocket now supports vertical scrolling so you can now scroll downwards, instead of sideways if you prefer so.
Second, Rocket now grabs your wallpaper from a Plasma configuration file directly, so you do not need to keep ~/.config/rocket/wallpaper.jpeg updated all the time. For multi-monitor setups, this might need some tweaking since the Plasma config file can become quite crowded over time.
Also, check out the wiki page for more information regarding all the tweaks Rocket has to offer!

First Release

This is the first release of Rocket, the new application launcher for KDE.

Rocket sorts all of your applications in a horizontal grid alphabetically, so you will always find what you are looking for at first glance. No more menu navigation, only scrolling.

However, if you wish to fire up a program at the very end of your extremely long list, you can just type its name in the search bar, and it will pop up at the first place -- if not selected, just press tab to select and enter to launch it. Even searching for keywords such as "file manager", "web browser" works!

For keyboard users, keyboard navigation is also supported, just press tab, and navigate using the arrow keys and enter.

It's also fully customizable, you can select your own background and the colours the program uses. For the background place an image named "wallpaper.jpeg" in ~/.config/rocket; for the rest open the respective configuration files.

You can find an installer script in the attached zip which installs the following files to your home directory:

• ~/.local/bin/rocket, the compiled binary to launch Rocket
• ~/.local/share/applications/rocket.desktop, the corresponding .desktop file
• ~/.local/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/rocket.svg, the icon for Rocket
• ~/.config/rocket/wallpaper.jpeg, the default wallpaper

To use the installer, make it executable via chmod +x install.sh and run it (./install.sh). As the installer will notify you, you might need to add ~/.local/bin to you PATH environment variable, if it's not there already.
To uninstall Rocket, just remove these files, and the ~/.config/rocket folder entirely.

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The new release containing the new feature picking the system's wallpaper as a background has been added to this package.