elementary / applications-menu

Applications Menu for elementary OS and the Pantheon desktop environment
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Allow ordering/editing of categories #543

Open cameralibre opened 2 years ago

cameralibre commented 2 years ago

The problem:

When I want to open a particular settings option, for example Settings -> Display, I can't see the option I'm looking for unless I scroll down or additionally type in 'settings'. This is because the 'Application Actions' appear before settings. launcher

This may be an extreme example because the Insomnia application has quite a lot of actions, and they have long descriptions so they're likely to match many different searches.

Feature request / potential solution:

There may be many other ways* to solve this, but what would work for me would be the option to choose the order in which categories appear in the launcher. E.g. if you use the launcher mostly for launching apps & settings, you could have them appear first, with application actions appearing further down the list. Alternatively the option to remove particular actions or actions for particular apps would be helpful.

*I like the choice to have sound settings available in the sound menu, for example—now I don't have to search for sound settings in the launcher

peteruithoven commented 2 years ago

*I like the choice to have sound settings available in the sound menu, for example—now I don't have to search for sound settings in the launcher

Which sound menu are you referring to? Because the sound indicator does have a button towards the sound settings. Screenshot from 2022-07-22 08-10-57@2x

cameralibre commented 2 years ago

Yes! That's the one I mean. I mentioned it as an example of a clever way to make settings available quickly and contextually, rather than having to go through the application launcher, which (as this issue shows) can be an awkward way to access settings.