v1.9.3

AppGrid 1.9.3

Crash fix

Fixed a segfault that could take down plasmashell during a sort (app rescan, settings change, or idle/lockscreen). A stale reference into the sort cache was fed to the collator after the cache moved in memory. (#202)

Full Changelog: v1.9.2...v1.9.3

v1.9.2

AppGrid 1.9.2

Patch release. Two rendering fixes.

Fixes

• Result icons: render QIcon-valued search result icons instead of failing to a blank icon.
• Center variant: align the theme-background blur to the panel under fractional scaling. (#188)

Full Changelog: v1.9.1...v1.9.2

▎ Heads up: 2.0.0 is in heavy development, AppGrid is growing up and things will change for the center variant.
▎ The next release is a big one.:
▎ - New foundation — a reworked architecture that lets AppGrid center run as a native standalone launcher, support proper theming out of the box, fixes issues with Better Blur DX, and makes room for more features down the line you all asked for. That means both AppGrid variants will be KDE native.
▎ - Adding some Plasma 6.7 features.
▎ - Virtual Folders for favorites — group your favorites into folders.

v1.9.1

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

v1.9.0

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

v1.9.0-rc.7

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

v1.8.5

What's Changed

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

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

v1.8.4

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

v1.8.3

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

v1.8.2

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

v1.8.1

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