Lancelot is an application launcher menu (or ALI) for KDE Workspace designed to provide a place from which all your jobs begin. It provides quick access to applications, places, documents, contacts, and system information.

In media

One of the winning projects of Qt Centre programming contest of 2008

If you want a very powerful application launcher with more capability that the default one, use a launcher such as Lancelot.
~ Martyn Honeyford (IBM DeveloperWorks)

Lancelot is in many ways what Kickoff should have been
~ Bruce Byfield (Linux.com)

Yay for choice of application launchers. Yay for Lancelot.
~ Tom Albers

Features

  • Optional no-click interface that allows you to navigate through the menu, and perform any action just by moving the mouse - without making a single click;
  • Arranging the layout of the menu depending on the position of the menu button which activates it, so that the most used categories appear nearest to the mouse;
  • Advanced search thanks to the integrated KRunner. So there is no need anymore for using two completely different applications that have basically the same purpose, but different approaches (although I do love KRunner);
  • Ability to place parts of the Lancelot menu directly onto your desktop or panel just by drag and drop.

People

At the moment, I (Ivan Čukić) am the only developer behind this project. Obviously, there are a lot of people involved indirectly - from other Plasma developers, to people who helped me find the answer to life, the universe, and everything.

Contact

You can find me on IRC (#plasma channel) under a very obscure nickname - ivan_cukic. Don't be confused if someone greets me with "Hi, Mr Lancelot"... it happens sometimes.

Latest

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Subversion

  • ivan * r1105695 applets/trunk/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/lancelot/parts/ (LancelotPartConfig.cpp LancelotPartConfigBase.ui): Icons for the config dialogue
  • ivan * r1105691 applets/trunk/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/lancelot/parts/LancelotPartConfigBase.ui: Changed UI
  • ivan * r1105689 applets/trunk/KDE/kdeplasma-addons/applets/lancelot/parts/ (LancelotPartConfig.cpp LancelotPartConfigBase.ui): Added removing selected items