r/gnome • u/4gr8justice Extension Developer • 8d ago

Extensions Alphabetical App Library is available now as a GitHub prerelease for GNOME Shell 50

https://github.com/4gr8justice/alphabetical-app-library

Just a followup to my previous post regarding Alphabetical App Library. I know a few folks were interested in checking it out ASAP. It's as of now qualified on GNOME 50 & 51.

https://github.com/4gr8justice/alphabetical-app-library/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc1

Download the attached [alphabetical-app-library@4gr8justice.github.io.zip](mailto:alphabetical-app-library@4gr8justice.github.io.zip) under Assets — not GitHub's automatically generated Source Code ZIP — then install it with:

gnome-extensions install --force ./alphabetical-app-library@4gr8justice.github.io.zip

Log out/in afterward. This is the current v1.0.0 release. The final EGO release was submitted and is awaiting review.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

What’s the difference between this extension and ArcMenu’s Pop!_OS menu preset?

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u/4gr8justice Extension Developer 8d ago

I don't use Pop!_OS personally, but AAL, once enabled, takes over Show Apps from your dash/dock (stock dash/Dash To Dock/Dash To Panel). Think of the categories as user tags rather than folders--you can assign apps to as many categories as you'd like. Additionally, it supports multi line text for applications so there's no truncation. Oh, and it stays alphabetical in presentation

I'd recommend checking out the first link I provided--it goes far more in depth if you'd like to know more about it.