Bug#609003: RFP: Valaunch -- Application launcher (vala port of gnome-launch-box)

[Domenico Cufalo <cufalo@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : Valaunch
  Version         : no version available
  Upstream Author : Shuerhaaken (cf. http://gitorious.org/~shuerhaaken)
* URL             : http://gitorious.org/valaunch
* License         : GPL v2
  Programming Lang: C, Vala
  Description     : Application launcher (vala port of gnome-launch-box)

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Valaunch is a vala port of gnome-launch-box. This is the description from the
homepage:

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Valaunch is an application starter that can be used to quickly find apps,
bookmarks or files on your computer and start/open these.

The valaunch window is shown on the entry of an desktop-wide keyboard shortcut.
After that, it usually only takes entering a few letters to find the desired
target.
The valaunch window is created with cairo and gtk+ and has transparency if the
desktop supports it.
This project is a port of gnome launch box (
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLaunchBox ) to the vala language.
The vala compiler creates GObject/C code from vala sources. This means no
interpreted language is used and that valaunch has very little overhead.
For releases, C sources are distributed and therefore no vala compiler is
needed to compile them.
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See also:  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLaunchBox (at the bottom of page)

I think it can be useful in desktop environments like Xfce or Lxde.

Hi and thanks in advance!