Ultimate Launcher
A high-performance, desktop launcher utilizing native Python bindings and Qt pipelines, supercharging productivity across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
✨ Features
- Feature 1: Clean, minimalistic, keyboard-first user interface sporting fluid component rendering, contextual actions, and asynchronous non-blocking search algorithms.
- Deep Plugin Ecosystem: Native compatibility with the Flow Launcher registry. Download, extract, and execute C#/Python community extensions spanning calculators, clipboard managers, web searchers, and dictionary definitions, all completely natively.
- Advanced Contextual Math Engine: Dedicated complex equation evaluator rendering customised large-scale widget panels seamlessly outside standard list bindings.
- Automated Update Subsystem: Connects directly to the GitHub Release API to seamlessly deploy
.zip payloads backwards over local code execution environments without destroying personal user config states or registry keys.
- Theme Transpiler: Directly mathematically transpiles XAML and JSON styles (from standard Flow community themes) into active global PyQt6 CSS overrides asynchronously on launch.
🚀 Download & Installation
The fastest way to install Ultimate Launcher is to download the natively compiled standalone installer directly from the GitHub Releases tab! No Python environment required.
(Note: Apple MacOS and Windows users may natively need to authorize the application actively via System Settings or Windows SmartScreen as the current build drops un-signed.)
🛠️ Build from Source (Developer Mode)
Ultimate Launcher can also execute directly from source via your system's Python distribution, enabling highly aggressive extensibility natively.
# 1. Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/mukunthpr/UltimateLauncher.git
cd UltimateLauncher
# 2. Build the lightweight virtual environment
python -m venv .venv
.\.venv\Scripts\activate
# 3. Install core framework pipelines
pip install PyQt6 keyboard requests psutil Send2Trash python-dotenv
# 4. Boot the OS daemon!
python main.py
⚙️ How it Works
The backend runs asynchronously inside a Qt loop. When Alt+Space is initiated globally, Win32 SetForegroundWindow commands aggressively intercept application contexts globally, overriding standard ForegroundLockTimeout race conditions within a secure 25ms timer block to guarantee keystroke stability perfectly onto the search bar.
To hide the UI, simply click outside the pane, press Escape, or wait for the 5-second Activity Monitor to drop it securely into the background.
📂 Architecture
core/: Non-visual system abstractions (Store Scrapers, JSON-RPC bridges, Core config states).ui/: Interface rendering handlers encompassing main_window, Sidebar-based Settings panes, and floating contextual actionable popup menus.plugins/: Your active extensions registry.
🌐 Auto Updates
To ensure parity and functionality remain robust, core/updater.py acts as a proxy checking Release trees against version.json. If a new commit manifests, it initiates an implicit hot-swap and forcefully triggers process execution loops to restart intelligently automatically.
Made with ❤️ by Mukunth P.R. Built on Python, completely open source.