App Launcher - Stardance

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App Launcher helps in finding and launching apps with ease. Many PC’s which are budget, running experimental versions of windows or general may find that Start Menu would lag sometimes. App Launcher is Instant, very minimal resource consumption, Modern Light/Dark Mode, fuzzy search which Start doesn’t support and clear icon view and navigation with arrow keys in the launcher. Its made in Python and compiled using pyinstaller and Setup made using Inno Setup. It essentially replaces the start menu in some way. Its hotkey to launch is Alt+X which is easily accessible. It has a priority system as well as soon as you open the Launcher, the list you see is the recently launched apps by it. Comparitively its much lighter to 99% of other launchers too.
I had a lot of difficulty and lot pf googling for this latest update in which i include better quality icons(had do dive into ctypes and stuff) uwp icons(more advanced logics and stuff) and small but good to have UI Changes, theme switcher based on windows modes and much more

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@Samyak on App Launcher · 14 days ago

40m 6s logged

Just did some minor UI Changes like now 7 rows instead of 6, improved window size, removed scroll bar while maintaining scroll functionality and globalized some variables…

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@Samyak on App Launcher · 14 days ago

10h 1m 3s logged

I worked on improving it. Its now much better.: Stability Improvements, Better Quality Icons, UWP Icons, Finally- An App Icon, Better Performance, Better Alt + X Capturing, Arrow Key Functionality. It wasn’t easy but not that hard. I definitely had to do a lot of googling. And i finally got Git working properly for the Repo with assistance from Gemini. I worked like 2hr and 30min(From i think 28 Sep), the 10h is just my past Macondo data btw…