On my system a lot of apps are in wrong categories or not categorized at all whereas ArcMenu or Gnome Applications Menu can do it properly:

• Absolutely ALL wine apps are unsorted NOT a single one sorted.
• The Document Scanner is in the wrong category: should be "Utilities" not "System Tools"
• The Terminal should be in "Utilities" not "System Tools"
• Your script does not even generate this "Utilities" category

It seem that your script does not respect the sorting rules applied under Ubuntu and PopOS.

The script just removed every icons, no folder created, I was left with just an empty screen using both interactive.py and appfixer.sh.

I was able to get everything back with interactive.py -> 3. Remove all existing folders from dashboard.

would it require any update ?

Make the interactive script use zenity to display messages.

Thanks to Rik Shaw for this idea!

Hi,

would it be possible to add support to group Android apps that are ran using Anbox or Waydroid in a separate folder?
Many thanks in advance.

Hello, I really like your project and I want to suggest you some great ideas. I hope you appreciate:

1. Setting to trasform the fullsize app menu into a resizable tiled menu, example:

https://i.imgbox.com/ySDTqiXB.png
https://i.imgbox.com/3Wb5xTbT.png

2. Arrange the folders directly on the desktop as clickable icons folders, example:

https://i.imgbox.com/KpOSX5eV.png

3. Possibility to resize the squares into micro squares.
4. Left scrollbar instead the dots.

PS: Are you planning to release these project in the Official GNOME store? Thanks.

I'll be creating a second script soon to remove all categories and restore a folder-less dash.

Hi there,

Just wanted to shared a different approach I've been using, you might find some of it useful to integrate in your project.

Reset menus: dconf reset -f "/org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/"
Backup: dconf dump /org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/ > menu.txt
Restore: dconf load /org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/ < menu.txt

Chrome apps have no Category, but are always named chrome* :

#!/bin/bash

applist=$(printf "'%s', " $(cd /home/bruno/.local/share/applications; ls chrome*.desktop))
applist="[$(sed -e 's/[,[:space:]]*$//' <<<${applist})]"

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders.folder:/org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/WebApps/ name 'X-GNOME-WebApplications.directory'
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders.folder:/org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/WebApps/ translate true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders.folder:/org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/WebApps/ apps "${applist}"

Menu format and translation support:

• Setting the translate flag and reference the desktop directory name whenever possible
• Use '@as []' or add/remove apps not matching categories, or matching more than one

[folders/Graphics]
translate=true
categories=['Graphics']
apps=['org.gnome.Photos.desktop']
excluded-apps=['evince.desktop', 'variety-slideshow.desktop']
name='Graphics.directory'

[folders/Office]
translate=true
categories=['Office']
apps=@as []
excluded-apps=@as []
name='Office.directory'

First of all Thanks a lot. This saves me a lot of time. I had to manually create folders in gnome-software and assign apps in it. This was the first time I felt that gnome-softwares is a bad piece of software. And I had freshly installed fedora few days ago.

Another thanks because it supports chrome-apps. That was the one thing I could never get to go into the folder. Confusingly I had unsuccessfully used the same commands for chrome app which is in your script and is now working.

Now for issues. Only thing left unsorted are wine apps and apps I have installed using .AppImage packaging.

Here is a screenshot.

I mark this as issue because softwares "Balsamiq" installed via wine and "Freeter", "Sqltron", "Gravit" installed via .AppImage were previously located to a custom folder named "Development Tools" I created via gnome-softwares. Now as you can see above, They are outside of any folder and my custom folder is no were to be seen.

Everything is in the title : Could that not be a gnome extension?

So I tested the new interactive script and it doesn't really work.

Running it on Arch, it changes the cursor, but no prompts or anything come up. Click on anything and suddenly "os" and "sys" files appear in the directory.

Here's some output:

[liam@liam-antergos ~]$ '/home/liam/Downloads/gnome-dash-fix-0.2-beta/interactive.py' 
/home/liam/Downloads/gnome-dash-fix-0.2-beta/interactive.py: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
/home/liam/Downloads/gnome-dash-fix-0.2-beta/interactive.py: line 4: `if sys.version_info < (3,0):'