It's not broken at all. With the fix documented earlier in this thread, LaunchPad still works on all my Macs...
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I have begun using spotlight to open my apps that are not in my menu bar.
With the latest version of Tahoe taking away the Launchpad functionality entirely, I am deeply disappointed with Apple.
I have moved to QAL Pro, and that does the trick… It is different, it is not as versatile, maybe not even as "pretty", but at least I can categorize my 250ish applications into the folders I like.
I should be able to do that in the Application folder, but it doesn't work with all applications...
I have moved to QAL Pro, and that does the trick… It is different, it is not as versatile, maybe not even as "pretty", but at least I can categorize my 250ish applications into the folders I like.
I should be able to do that in the Application folder, but it doesn't work with all applications...
there are alternatives, options. or you could adapt (it took me less than a day), and get on with it. just a thought
I have tried. But, with 250+ applications, it is impossible for me to remember all the names, and often I just know I need one of the “Photo Editing Utilities” and hence look in that particular folder. If Apple let me decide on the folders the apps were categorized into, that would make it usable, but alas... QAL Pro does that... LaunchPad did that...
Maybe where I have gone wrong then, is that I created the folders in the Applications folder, and I dragged applications directly into said folders. That certainly didn't work. So, maybe I'll try with aliases, and then into a folder structure in Documents for instance. Thanks for the suggestion!
definitely make a folder outside of applications; when you drag programs into those folder FROM applications, that should create aliases only (check tho). let us know how this works.
i have about 90 apps in my applications folder (including apple's default apps). but i mostly use around 25, so it's easy to do with the new method (multi-finger swipe and start typing the app name i want). keeping track of 250 apps definitely needs a system! 👍
Is this already in here?
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GitHub - trey-a-12/LaunchBack: A free and open-source re-implementation of the macOS Launchpad pre-Tahoe
A free and open-source re-implementation of the macOS Launchpad pre-Tahoe - trey-a-12/LaunchBack
github.com
LaunchBack is a decent ver. 1 attempt. It needs a lot of work, and IMHO is not workable at this time.Is this already in here?
GitHub - trey-a-12/LaunchBack: A free and open-source re-implementation of the macOS Launchpad pre-Tahoe
A free and open-source re-implementation of the macOS Launchpad pre-Tahoe - trey-a-12/LaunchBack
Yes, I tried it in Sequoia. It's using the full screen and the icons are huge on my ultra-wide display. 6 icons per row, 4 rows and the last row is partly in the Dock and outside the screen. (1.1.1 Beta)
Launchpad has 7 icons per row, 5 rows and I can see my Wallpaper instead of just white or black.
But I always preferred the grid view of the Applications folder anyway. It can be zoomed in and out if you want to see less bigger icons or more smaller ones. Sometimes I change it to list view.
And not only the standard Applications folder, there is even one only showing the stock apps.
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It would have been nice if Apple had just adapted the translucency of LaunchPad to Liquid Glass, instead of slashing it. I’m still hoping for Apple to bring it back in the future but for now… let’s hope LaunchBack keeps improving.Is this already in here?
GitHub - trey-a-12/LaunchBack: A free and open-source re-implementation of the macOS Launchpad pre-Tahoe
A free and open-source re-implementation of the macOS Launchpad pre-Tahoe - trey-a-12/LaunchBack
It would be nice if we list all the LaunchPad alternatives in one place (this thread?). I’ve seen one more in the Mac App Store, called Quick App Launcher (Pro).
A point I made in the other tropic on this issue, is that the beauty of Launchpad and Dashboard were they acted as OS break out spaces, cognitive break spaces not constrained by the root OS UI, and Apple either does not value and understand this (what they created), or maybe that is their issue and this form of expansive sophistication needs to be eradicated.
What we're seeing here is really regressive and degenerative creativity and design.
Breaking out into these space at the click of a button or with a gesture, allowed OSX/macOS inhabit some of that UI space more familiar to gaming but just enough not to get all clippy!
I'm starting to think it's a case of who can bright and shiny out-mania the most in the curved halls of Apple Spaceship, where a kind of boredom is the new design trigger, yet these spaces (dashboard/launchapd) where more inviting of new, maybe more liberal spaces to experiment and try out things, without braking the whole structure, and bring something really new and useful, again as I said in previous post, without having to overhaul the entire OS UI and break user (who is customer) experience, i..e piss everyone off.
The former trajectory was more dimensional, break out the dimeiniosn boys and girls, but now it's one dimension size will fit all, and as you can see (music.app being a great example fo the bad) how that is going, i.e. not well.
Instead of iterating and expanding launchpad (RIP), dashboard (RIP) We could have another third space feature at this point, like HiFi - man that woudl be some 3rd space. You can see it now right? Oh yea, control, dials, and big gorgeous album artwork, in it's own space like dashboard (it would be entirely complementary space to garageband, how no one thought of this I dunno) - hit that launch button and jump in HiFi space to play your tune, really neat.
But no, Apple is chopping down trees in the Apple UI orchard until there really is only a walled garden, so they can plant more squricles and squircles grow boxes of course!
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Wow, not only your post was creative and elaborate, but also you have a point.
Definitely bringing a disconnection screen back, along with widgets and direct access to apps, would be really cool indeed.
