system-updater VS launcher

pop-system-updater

The most I've heard of is the Pop! OS system updater (https://github.com/pop-os/system-updater) does support updating nix packages (see https://github.com/pop-os/system-updater/blob/master/daemon/src/package_managers/nix.rs). It would probably need some modification to work on NixOS though. Other than that I don't think any graphical package managers are being maintained, although I've been meaning to dive in and make one once I finish the first release of my configuration editor

That's why in Gnome, you need a shell extension instead of an app. Shell extensions are written specifically for Gnome, and the documentation sucks, so immediately you have way fewer options. BUT, guess what: PoP OS launcher is a Gnome shell extension (which is why it worked for you), and you can use that in any distro using Gnome, including Fedora. However, it is that it's part of pop-shell, so you also get the other UI customizations (mostly keyboard shortcuts for tiling that you can disable I think). It also requires setting up the back-end service to handle the non-ui side. Maybe there are Fedora packages for it that makes it easier (I don't use Fedora myself, so wouldn't know).

I might take a look at that. Is this the right repo?

Just to be clear, you are talking about the Pop Launcher and not the Cosmic Applications Launcher, correct? (since there may be some confusion around what the "Pop Launcher" is vs. the "Cosmic Applications Launcher" ... see https://imgur.com/a/XN34drv for images)

pop-launcher

This feature has been merged but not yet released: https://github.com/pop-os/launcher/issues/152

Pop launcher github: https://github.com/pop-os/launcher

You can open any website in your default browser using the "www" pattern, e.g. "www reddit.com" (note, no "." after the "www") github

You can get pop-shell and pop-launcher in fedora.

The last improvement was feat(service): prefer recently/often used applications in search which may have caused this.

In the cosmic launcher I use the plugin "recent" to open recent files. I would like to have a shorter keyword for this, like "fr" (for find recent). What is the best way to do this? I have looked at the readme for pop-os/launcher, but copying the system recent plugin to a new one at ~/.local/share/pop-launcher/plugins/fr doesn't work, and breaks the system version. When I remove ~/.local/share/pop-launcher/plugins/fr, then the system version starts working again.