I'm sorry, I thought this would be fun at first, but now it seems not to be, and it does cause confusion. I will rewrite it. My technical skills are not good when it comes to code and technology, far from good. But I will try to make sure all functions are tested and will not cause more problems. I'm still a student, I know I shouldn't use this as an excuse, but my only hope is that many Mac users who can't adapt to the new Launchpad will have more alternatives and more choices.Until Apple bring Launchpad back( if possible)
Thank you for the reply, So in the current version, you can set the number of rows and columns, and you can also hide the software (not displayed in the launcher) and hide the title of the software. I checked the comments section, and it seems there are still quite a few performance issues... I'm not sure if this is an isolated incident or a common occurrence. I'll look into it.
Yes, I understand how you feels. I did use AI for documentation and the project. I know that's not ideal and probably comes across as low-effort.
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.
It’s a one person passion project. We’re grateful you even showed us. Perhaps someone with strong opinions about open source will volunteer to write over the parts they don’t like.
Thank you! :) I think it's great that different people have different ideas. Questioning is actually a good thing, it helps drive progress in many different areas. I'm truly grateful. I'll keep fixing and updating the software, since I need to use it everyday.
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.
Do you mean when you first open the software, or when you go to other pages? It does feel sluggish when you first open it. Also the RAM usage is not that good. I hope I can do some optimization on it.
Swiping between pages is hit or miss. Its like it doesn't hook on the swipe. The search is really, really slow. I do have hundreds of "apps" on my machine, but it's still much slower than the native app navigator. Moving around apps to group them or rearrange them is probably the slowest part. I turned on dev fps monitor and it's showing 50fps.
That's not a good frame rate.
My computer has this situation:
(
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...
