Replace 'Search Light' with Ulauncher

Basically Search Light doesn’t work with GNOME 48, but also its development has been scattered around months and months, while issues and features piles up with no developer response.

In contrast, Ulauncher is actively progressing into V6, and for the looks of it, seems more flexible than Search Light.

The problem is Ulauncher is not a GNOME extensions, so it needs to be implemented as a package library.

We’ve got searchlight working with 48 and bluefin:stable will ship with it.

We can look at ulauncher for this next cycle though!

Ok searchlight is live in the latest F42 builds. It looks like ulauncher is in fedora now anyway so it should make integrating it much easier.

Anyone have experience with it and want to share?

I like what ulauncher offers but I’ve had issues getting it to work with Wayland as you need to add an additional package.

I also think their main recommendation was to just use X11. Not very viable long term.

I thought about looking at it again while search light wasn’t working but started using Arc Menu which got me close enough while waiting on Search Light

Shoot, I would almost recommend replacing search light with Arc Menu.

The current ulauncher wouldn’t work, however they have a new version they’re working which looks promising: