Still updating, open an issue if there are any problems. Hope this could help if someone updated to MacOS26 and not happy with new Launchpad :)
Thank you.
Still updating, open an issue if there are any problems. Hope this could help if someone updated to MacOS26 and not happy with new Launchpad :)
Thank you.
( ls /Applications/.app 2>/dev/null ls /System/Applications/.app 2>/dev/null ls ~/Applications/*.app 2>/dev/null ) | wc -l 730
For me, it was really slow at the beginning, but it got much better after that. I'm not sure why, but this at least shows that there are still big problems with the current performance...
One mistake I did make when upgrading was not updating little snitch, and I couldn't get any network connection for a bit until I reinstalled that app via USB.
The two things I always wished you could do in the old Launchpad (and would have made me hate it a lot less) are:
Configuring the size of the icon grid. Just give me the option to make it denser, the defaults were silly on external displays.
and the other is being able to completely exclude the nonsense apps like the 6 different Adobe Creative Cloud icons that would end up in there. Though it'd also be nice if Adobe didn't spew them all over the place in the first place...
Why? Well, there are some apps I have installed and forgotten, for example, I have several 3D printer slicers, but normally I only use one. I grouped them into a folder, so I could check what I have installed if I wanted to switch for whatever reason. I also had a folder called "useless", where I place everything that I don't used but I can't remove (Apple stuff, Safari extensions, bloat installed with LaTeX, and so on).
The new "apps" can't be organized. Everything is just thrown there, only sorted alphabetically. There's no reason for me to use that, if I remember what I want I can just type in Spotlight
PS: It's possible to bring back Launchpad in Tahoe through the command line. I only didn't that yet because I don't know how safe it is to do that.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here, but if you don't even stand behind your own readme, I struggle to trust your code.
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But honestly, I was genuinely frustrated with macOS 26's launchpad changes and wanted to build something to fix it. Yeah, the project has the problem but I'm trying to improving it. I just simply want there are more solutions, more alternative there. For the technology side, I am still a student, and my technical skills are not good, far from good. I just want the problem to be fixed, and for us to have better tools.
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It's probably good to disclose this upfront and since you're a student that can be a starting point to keep improving the project until it's well architected and you understand every detail of it and why it's designed this way.