kupfer, a convenient command and access tool
Kupfer is an interface for quick and convenient access to applications and their documents.
The most typical use is to find a specific application and launch it. We have tried to make Kupfer easy to extend with plugins so that this quick-access paradigm can be extended to many more objects than just applications.
We hope that using Kupfer feels both very fun and different.
![[screenshot] rhythmbox songs](sudieyrum-ascii.png)
You can access songs from the music player quickly (here using Rhythmbox integration).
![[screenshot] file management](kupfer-files-ascii.png)
You can browse and manage files.
Latest version
Source tarball: kupfer-v205.tar.gz (774 K)
Nickname: Congratulating ourselves
- Changes to the interface
- NOw we have a teh awsum interface
- Nice default icon set called "Ascii"
- Add context action "Set X as default action for object Y"
- You can finally make Kupfer do what you want.
- Implement a preedit widget for input methods, also resolving
the incompatibility with ibus (David Schneider) (696727)
- Ok, so that foreign people can enter text too.
- Updated Kupfer's technical documentation (in Documentation/),
including the Plugin API reference.
- Someone finally bothered
- The action Go To on applications has changed implementation. It will
first bring to front all yada yada, etc...
- Whatever, it finally works in a sensible way
- And tons of other stuff, enjoy!
Donations
Get Kupfer from your distribution
- Ubuntu and Debian
- Kupfer is available in the repository under the package name kupfer, you can install it with your package manager.
- Ubuntu PPA
- More up to date versions of Kupfer are available in Kupfer's PPA.
- Arch Linux
- Kupfer is available in the community repositories (AUR)
Installation from Source
The installation from source is simple and uses waf; install Kupfer with the following procedure:
./waf configure ./waf sudo ./waf install
Requirements
Kupfer requires Python 2.6 or later, and Python modules gtk, dbus, and xdg. Intltool is required to build the package from source. The module python-keybinder is strongly recommended. See the README for more detailed information.
Documentation
Links
- file bug reports in Kupfer project at launchpad.net
- source repository is at http://git.gnome.org/browse/kupfer/
- fork-friendly github repository (and experimental stuff) is at http://github.com/engla/kupfer
- kupfer mailing list is kupfer-list
- Talk about Kupfer on IRC at the irc.freenode.net channel #kupfer (Connect with Web Client)
- Kupfer Wiki pages: more community resources