I see them interspersed amongst my native applications:
…which has confused me in the past (see “Files” and "Files).
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It depends.
On GNOME, you could manually arrange apps into folders.
But on a first glance it seems to me you’re using Phosh? Then I’m not sure if it supports folders…
Edit: Just looked it up and Phosh seems to support folders as well, similar to GNOME.
An alternative solution would be to hide the Android apps you’re not using. If I remember right Waydroid puts its desktop files in your local data (~/.local/share/applications), so you could edit the desktop file for the app in question and add an Hidden=true to the file. That should hide the app in question from the grid.
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@CodedOre, I’m not using Phosh. I’m using postmarketOS’s GNOME Mobile:
I actually wasn’t aware that it wasn’t wholly upstreamed yet. However, I can’t imagine that this differs between upstream GNOME and it.
I’d like it to be automatic, and, ideally, for them to remain easily accessible.
On KDE Plasma Desktop (albeit no Mobile, but its mobile DE is generally dreadful), its default Windows “Start Menu” equivalent organises applications into categories. One is created for WayDroid applications:
However, GNOME appears to ignore those categories [usually, for better, but—], for worse in this situation.
You can have category based folders in gnome-shell, but that’s not exposed in the GUI. For this, first create a new folder by dragging two app icons onto each other. Then run dconf-editor and go to /org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/NAME_OF_THE_FOLDER_YOU_CREATED. In there change the categories value to whatever list of categories you want to be automatically put in that folder (e.g. ['some-category', 'another-category']). To find out the exact name of the category, you can look at the .desktop files in ~/.local/share/applications. You might have to restart your session for this to apply.
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Setting Hidden=true is treating the .desktop file as if it did not exist. If you only want it to be hidden from the app grid it is better to use NoDisplay=true. Then other things that the .desktop file is used for (associating windows with an app, mime type associations, etc.) will still work
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Right, I remembered there being two of these and one being the better one. But it seems like I remembered the wrong one…
Thanks for the correction!
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