alphabetical-grid-extension
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Alphabetically order GNOME's app grid and folders
Alphabetical App Grid GNOME Extension
- Restore the alphabetical ordering of the app grid, removed in GNOME 3.38
- Supports GNOME 3.38+, earlier versions are untested, and unnecessary
- Get the extension from here
- This project is licensed under GPL 3.0
- Any donations are greatly appreciated :)
Install the extension from releases:
- Extract the zip to
~/.local/share/gnome-shell/extensions/AlphabeticalAppGrid@stuarthayhurst/
- Alternatively:
gnome-extensions install "[email protected]" --force
- Alternatively:
- Reload GNOME: ALT+F2, r, ENTER
- Enable the extension:
gnome-extensions enable AlphabeticalAppGrid@stuarthayhurst
Install the extension from source:
- Make sure the install dependencies are installed
-
make build
-
make install
- Reload GNOME
- Enable the extension
Build system usage:
-
Common targets: Regular build system targets to build, install and uninstall
-
make build
: Compiles GSettings schemas and creates extension zip -
make check
: Runs checks on built extension zip -
make install
: Installs the extension -
make uninstall
: Uninstalls the extension
-
-
Development targets: These targets are aimed at developers and translators
-
make clean
: Deletes extension zip,locale
and automatic backups -
make gtk4
: Creates a GTK 4 UI from the GTK 3 UI file (Should be run after any changes to files inui/
) -
make translations
: Updates translations -
make compress
: Losslessly compresses any .pngs indocs/
- Allows passing
COMPRESSLEVEL="-oX"
, wherex
is an integer between 0-7
- Allows passing
-
make release
: Updates the GTK 4 UI, translations, then creates and checks an extension zip- Calls
make gtk4 translations compress build check
- Supports any variables / arguments supported by these targets
- Also allows passing
VERSION="XX"
, whereXX
is the version to updatemetadata.json
to
- Calls
-
make package
: Creates the extension zip from the project's current state (Only useful for debugging)
-
Install dependencies:
- gettext
- gnome-extensions
- libglib2.0-bin
Build dependencies: (Only required if running make release
)
-
All install dependencies
- sed (
make translations
) - libgtk-4-bin (
make gtk4
) - optipng (
make compress
)
What happened to the show favourites option?
- Maintaining this feature was going to end up complicated and messy
- It was also out of scope, and this extension did the job better
- With this in mind, the feature was removed in release
v16
Want to help?
- Help with the project is always appreciated, refer to
docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
to get started - Documentation, code, translations and UI improvements are all welcome!
Bug reporting / debugging:
- If you were simply told "Error" while installing, reboot and if there's still an issue
- When installing an extension from GNOME's extension site, this is normal
- A log of what the extension is doing is very helpful for fixing issues
- The extension logs to the system logs when enabled, which can be accessed with
journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell
- A live feed of GNOME's logs can be accessed with
journalctl /usr/bin/gnome-shell -f -o cat
- To enable logging, the setting can be found under the
Developer settings
section of the extension's settings:
Credits:
-
scripts/update-po.sh
andscripts/update-pot.sh
were derived from Fly-Pie, originally licensed under the MIT license
Screenshots: