A Simple GNOME launcher in 20 lines of code

zenlauncher

#!/bin/bash

# Config file stores all the commands as csv data
configfile=$HOME/.config/zenlauncher/applist.csv
configdir=$(dirname $configfile)

# Create the config file if it's not existing and add the first command
if [ ! -f $configfile ] ;
then
    mkdir -p $configdir
    echo "Add to Zen, Add a new entry to zen launcher, addtozen" >> $configfile
fi

# addtozen to append a line to config file
function addtozen {
mkdir -p $configdir
zenity --forms --add-entry="Name" --add-entry="Description" --add-entry="Command" --separator="," >> $configfile
}

app=$(cat $configfile | sed 's/,/\n/g' | sed 's/^ *\(.*\) *$/\1/g' | zenity --list --title="ZenLauncher" --column="Name" --column="Description" --column="Command" --print-column=3 --width=800 --height=300)
eval $app