elementary / applications-menu

Applications Menu for elementary OS and the Pantheon desktop environment
https://elementary.io
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App grid should not have to reset with every new app added/removed #441

Open hanaral opened 3 years ago

hanaral commented 3 years ago

Problem

Installing/removing apps or adding/removing .desktop's will cause the Menu to reset back to page 1. This isn't very user friendly and feels quite janky (and makes the UX feel fragile)

Proposal

Make the grid it's own container that is able to have items dynamically added/removed when installed, or if the .desktop (or .flatpak?) is dragged-and-dropped on to the Menu.

Prior Art

The MacOS 'Applications' menu before it sucked: