unity-launcher

library for the Unity launcher and dash for use in unity-shell.

It builds on Astal and exposes two windows:

• UnityLauncher: the vertical panel. Shows pinned and running apps, tracks Wayland toplevels, and launches or focuses them on click.
• UnityDash: the full-screen overlay. Browses installed apps in a grid and filters them as you type.

The app list is modelled separately so the launcher and dash share from common source:

• UnityAppList: a GListModel of UnityAppEntry objects, seeded from pinned app ids and updated as toplevels come and go.
• UnityAppEntry: one application — its GAppInfo, its toplevels, and its pinned / running / activated state.

build

install the deps:

• gtk4 (>= 4.22)
• libadwaita-1 (>= 1.8)
• gio-2.0
• gio-unix-2.0
• graphene-1.0
• wayland-client
• astal-4-4.0
• astal-apps-0.1
• astal-wlr-0.1
• meson

meson setup build
ninja -C build
sudo meson install -C build