Proposal for app display: Add 3 key features. Ability to delete a folder, fill empty cells, lock user icon dnd

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Simplicity is great if it doesn’t make user experience worst. Yes. gnome shell’s app display is too simple. It can get messed up easily. Dragging icons across pages to fill empty cells is extremely annoying and having to dnd icons inside a folder dialog just to delete that dialog is another inconvenience.

gnome’s background has its own context menu to access wallpaper settings etc. I think app display should also have a context menu to serve 2 features. Lock layout and fill empty cells. Apps folders should also implement a menu option for deleting itself entirely.

This doesn’t push breaking changes to user experience as those all I mentioned must be implemented as context menus meaning its up for the users to discover it in a new release. No extra buttons around the app display, maintaining same simplicity + additional helpful feature.

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I highly approve, and I would add, that selecting multiple app to group them or move them, and sorting options would be nice too.

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Yes that is definitely a good addition. That is a very android’sh feature when moving icons across home screen pages

But then again that might overwhelm users. Let’s wait for other’s response tho.

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Edubuntu includes Alphabetical App Grid - GNOME Shell Extensions by default which avoids the need to manually organize your app launchers.

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I already opened an issue and made my prototype which is a very very small foorprint. It now can fill empty cells, sort alphabetically. But I still haven’t implemented Drag and Drop blocking for layout lock. I’m not familiar on how to block dnd on gnome shell.

See this issue I opened Issues · GNOME / gnome-shell · GitLab

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I would not consider moving a group but the folder creation with multi selection would be a greate addition

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Just made my first prototype currently the fill empty cells and the sort is working. Function for Remove folder and Lock layout is not yet implemented.

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