Searching on system settings

[bertdida]

Hi, does anyone here thought about using rofi to search-then-open system settings? I'm curious if this is possible.

[DaveDavenport]

No idea , don't have a clue what you mean with 'system settings'.

You need to provide way more information is you want other people to understand.
(distribution? desktop environment? etc.)

[bertdida]

Oh sorry for not being clear. By "system settings" I mean the Control Center.

Because on Fedora (which I'm using), settings are included on the search result. I wonder if someone was able to do it, or if this is possible.

I'm using Fedora 36, Gnome, x11 btw. thank you

[DaveDavenport]

no idea how it is implemented? if they follow a standard, I expect the settings entries to have a desktop file?

[bertdida]

Yes they do. Below their desktop files are prefixed with gnome-.

Checking on one of the file it contains the metadata below.

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Displays
Comment=Choose how to use connected monitors and projectors
Exec=gnome-control-center display
# Translators: Do NOT translate or transliterate this text (this is an icon file name)!
Icon=org.gnome.Settings-display-symbolic
Terminal=false
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
StartupNotify=true
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Settings;HardwareSettings;X-GNOME-Settings-Panel;X-GNOME-DevicesSettings;
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Bugzilla=GNOME
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Product=gnome-control-center
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Component=Screen resolution
X-GNOME-Bugzilla-Version=42.3
Keywords=Panel;Projector;xrandr;Screen;Resolution;Refresh;Monitor;Night;Light;Blue;redshift;color;sunset;sunrise;

Knowing that they use desktop files, do you think what I want to achieve is possible? If so, can you suggest me how.

[DaveDavenport]

This is why rofi is not displaying them:

NoDisplay=true

See: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html

[bertdida]

Oh okay. Thanks

[bertdida]

To anyone interested in this, I created its plugin https://github.com/bertdida/rofi-control-center. 🥂

[DaveDavenport]

Great. This is exactly why we have script and combi mode 😄