Missing cockpit-client-launcher for Slowroll

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I have just installed Cockpit to my Slowroll. The replacement for Yast. Time to go with the times. And I instantly hit a problem. The desktop launcher is missing. What the heck?

Official documentation of Cockpit list ‘cockpit-client-launcher’ as one of the tools to install. Install a Cockpit launcher with a menu entry. Yes, I would like that!
https://en.opensuse.org/Main:Cockpit

espinosa@espinosa-asus:~> sudo zypper in cockpit-client-launcher
[sudo] password for root: 
Refreshing  ... .... ...
Reading installed packages...
Package 'cockpit-client-launcher' not found.

https://software.opensuse.org/package/cockpit-client-launcher?search_term=cockpit-client-launcher

Flatpak-free launcher for the Cockpit GTK client
cockpit-client-launcher provides a desktop launcher for the Cockpit GTK client without requiring Flatpak. It connects to the locally installed cockpit-ws service and automatically detects the configured listening port from cockpit.socket.
There is no official package available for ALL Distributions

Yep. Slowroll is not there.
But why!?!?
Should I install the Flatpak version?

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There is no need to use the launcher (it is described in the wiki how to start cockpit without launcher…)…so no need to use flatpak.

The launcher will show up for sure in one of the next monthly big upgrades to SR.

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… around the 10th of April, since it is available for Tumbleweed:

S  | Name                    | Type    | Version | Arch   | Repository
---+-------------------------+---------+---------+--------+-----------
i+ | cockpit-client-launcher | package | 356-1.1 | noarch | repo-oss

and since it is just a script I think that you can install the Tumbleweed version on Slowroll too (but I didn’t check, so YMMV :wink: )

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Cockpit run in the terminal by this ex:

firefox localhost:9090

If it works for you, you can just make a launcher with that command if you are using firefox.