AppGrid 1.9.1

A small follow-up to 1.9.0, focused on the Plasma theme background and app icons.

Fixes

• Plasma theme background: "Use Plasma theme background" now renders the theme's rounded corners and drop shadow correctly, matching Kickoff and other popups (#188). A note in Settings flags that a few themes still don't round cleanly.
• Icons refresh on theme change: changing the system icon theme did not update the grid icons right away, instead only the ones you scroll past.

Full Changelog: v1.9.0...v1.9.1

AppGrid 1.9.0

A big step up from the 1.8 series. Alot has went under the hood and more will follow.

New

• Compact mode — opens straight to the search bar with the grid hidden, KRunner style. Bind it to a shortcut like Alt+Space and use AppGrid as a drop-in for KRunner.
• Inline autocompletion — the search field completes the name as you type. Press Right arrow to accept it.
• Smarter search — KDE search-plugin actions and calculator chain-typing, your default apps ranked correctly, results that follow your KRunner plugin order, and a search font that scales with your icon size.
• Redesigned category bar — show categories as text, icons, or icons with text. Open a category on hover, and page hands-free.
• Tidier grid — square cells so long names stop wrapping awkwardly, a 5×4 default, labels that scale with the size preset, and an option for tighter spacing.
• Manage in Discover — update or remove system and Snap apps straight from the right-click menu.
• Reworked settings
• Better theming support — optional Plasma theme background for the Center variant, dividers drawn from your theme, density that scales with icon size, and independent blur and background-contrast toggles.
• One compiled module — the QML interface is now compiled into the C++ plugin and shipped as a single .so. Faster, more reliable loading and a cleaner install.

Upgrading

Because AppGrid is now a compiled plugin, after updating you need to restart Plasma for the new version to load — log out and back in, or run kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell.

Fixes

• The panel popup keeps its size when you switch to it from Kickoff or Kicker.
• Plenty of smaller crash, layout, and Wayland fixes.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who helped make the 1.9.0 series happen:

• Frédéric Rousseau
• dcog989
• orange-seele
• Kingproone

And a big thank-you to everyone who filed issues, tested the release candidates, and packaged AppGrid for their distro.

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.9.0

AppGrid 1.9.0-rc.7

Added

• Open-on-hover for the category bar, with a slow hands-free arrow re-trigger (#176)
• Optional category-bar icons — text / icon+text / icon-only (#176)
• 5×4 default grid; labels scale with the size preset (#177)

Fixed

• Search results now respect your KRunner plugin arrangement (#180)
• Square grid cells so long app names no longer orphan onto a second line (#177)
• Full-screen blur leak on resume from sleep
• Centred panel sizing off the window (not a stale screen) after wake
• Stale search result counts; a dangling activated-signal lambda

⚠️ Release candidate — please report issues.

Full Changelog: v1.9.0-rc.6...v1.9.0-rc.7

What's Changed

• Backport: fix search arrow nav after hover (#148) by @Caelestis94 in #150

Full Changelog: v1.8.4...v1.8.5

AppGrid 1.8.4

A small bugfix release.

Fixes

• Icon hover animations no longer play on open by default.
• The panel popup keeps your size instead of auto-resizing. (#146)
• "Manage in Discover" appears as soon as the backend is installed.

Performance

• Skip a redundant model refresh when the recent-apps list hasn't changed.

Full Changelog: v1.8.3...v1.8.4

AppGrid 1.8.3

Single-fix patch.

Fixed

• Search highlight now follows slow mouse motion on screens with
  fractional scaling.
  (#145)

Full Changelog: v1.8.2...v1.8.3

AppGrid 1.8.1

Bug-fix patch.

Fixed

• Favorites migration on 1.7.x upgrade no longer adds apps you never set.
  Plasma seeds a new launcher's KActivities namespace with Kickoff-style
  defaults (Konsole, Discover, Settings); 1.8.0 / 1.8.1 was unioning those
  with your 1.7.x list. If you were already affected, remove the unwanted
  entries via right-click once after updating — they will stay removed.
  (#144)

• Search highlight no longer jumps to the row under the mouse while the
  list is scrolling, while results are populating, or when you click. The
  top match stays selected as you type, and Enter launches what's actually
  highlighted. (#140)

Full Changelog: v1.8.1...v1.8.2

AppGrid 1.8.1

Small patch with interaction fixes and one new translation.

Fixed

• Search highlight no longer snaps to whatever row the cursor was over when
  scrolling the list with the keyboard, wheel, or PgUp/PgDn. (#128)

Added

• Traditional Chinese (zh_TW) translation — thanks @orange-seele. (#131)

Full Changelog: v1.8.0...v1.8.1

AppGrid 1.8.0

Biggest update since launch. Favorites rewritten, you can drag apps out, search ranks smarter, deeper Plasma integration.

A lot has gone into this release and a lot has been identified and fixed, which makes this the best release so far — mostly thanks to contributors who tested it in and
out and reported issues, keeping me up at night :) seeing things I don't. Their help made this a good release.

Highlights

• KActivities-backed favorites (#37) using KAStatsFavoritesModel — the same plugin Kickoff uses.
  Existing favorites migrate on first launch. AppGrid currently still keeps its own favorites namespace.
• Drag favorites to reorder with edge auto-scroll (#90). Ctrl+Shift+Arrow for keyboard reorder. Drop
  external .desktop files to pin.
• Drag apps out to the taskbar, panel, desktop, or Dolphin (#96). Ctrl+click for multi-select, drag
  many at once. Bulk pin / unpin / hide / launch / copy from the context menu.
• Smarter search ranking — most-used and mime-default apps cross a relevance tier (#99).
• Manage in Discover context menu for Flatpak apps (#119). System packages later.
• Broadcast launches to KActivities (#95) so Kickoff "Most Used", recent docs and friends see AppGrid
  activity.
• Per-button power & session controls — drag-reorder, individual show/hide (#105).
• Alt+Left / Alt+Right to step through categories (#108).
• Drop shadow behind app icons (optional, very light).
• Vertical position offset for the centered launcher.
• Modernized search results — section headers, empty-state placeholder, highlighted result's icon shown in the search bar.
• Bundled launcher icon as the default for both variants. 1.7.x installs keep their prior icon.
• Official packaging — Ubuntu PPA (Launchpad), Fedora COPR, AUR, and a Universal Package (beta) with opt-in in-app update checker for off-distro users
  (#68).

Performance

Several rounds of profiling went into this release: the launcher window is now built ahead of the click while the cursor is on its way, hot lookups in the search and
filter paths are cached, and the favorites pipeline only spins up the parts it actually needs. The net effect is a noticeably snappier open, smoother category switching,
and less CPU while scrolling — especially on lower-end hardware and large app sets.

Reported bug fixes

• #86 / #103 — Icons update
  immediately on system icon theme change.
• #89 — Favorites swap bug; added alphabetical sort option.
• #110 — Panel freeze on resize fixed. Scrollbar reworked as an auto-hiding overlay. ? and i: views
  scrollable. Mouse-wheel scroll step restored. Center / Panel settings synced.
• #113 — Category bar pages cleanly with collapsing arrows, snaps to bounds, no half-clipped boundary
  item.
• #114 — Search results no longer auto-scroll when hovering a clipped bottom row.
• #117 — Hover-revealed clipped rows no longer trigger a scroll cascade (PR from @Caelestis94).
• #122 — Upgrade from 1.7.x preserves the prior launcher icon (default change migrated only for fresh
  installs).

Contributors

Thanks to @Kingproone and @Caelestis94 for the bulk of testing and bug reports, and to everyone else who tested the rc cycle, filed issues, and contributed.

Full Changelog: v1.7.10...v1.8.0

AppGrid 1.7.10

fix release for the icon-theme regression introduced alongside the
v1.7.9 icon-change fix #86 fixes #103 .

Full Changelog: v1.7.9...v1.7.10