Mutant

Productivity launcher

What is this?

This is a productivity app inspired by the great qdore's mutate launcher (hence the name), which is inspired by Alfred Launcher. It is intended to substitute the default search bar adding more features and usability, making the workflow easy.

How to use it

Install and launch, default launch shortcut is Ctrl+Space, but it's overridable.

Distro Installation

By now, only Arch Linux is supported (community repo must be enabled), just issue

sudo pacman -S mutant

Manual Installation

Get in the project dir

cd mutant

Run npm installation under electron runtime

npm run install-for-electron

Launch app

electron .

Current Features

• Search and launch any installed app
• Search on the internet (defaults to google)
• Search on browser history (working on it, by now only firefox and chrome are supported)
• Launch given url

Contributing

Any contribution is welcome, don't hesitate to make a pull request. My front-end skill-set is poor, any support there would be much appreciated.

• Developing applications: There's no guide for this right now, but it's fairly simple, grabbing any application and looking at the code should give a good overview.

Motivation

After using qdore's mutate for almost a year and customizing it a lot I miss some functionality so I decided to make my own version of it.

Dependencies

• nodejs
• electron
• pkg-config
• gtk+-3.0
• librsvg2-dev

Roadmap

• Install script (by now just set things up)
• Settings window (Shortcut override)
• Use and launch custom scripts (search on given scripts folder)
• Search on more browsers history (By now support for Chrome and Firefox)
• Dictionary
• Calculator
• Translator
• Maps??
• Web preview (Apple's spotlight style)