Bug 1060554

I thought that the idea of the applications view (or whatever it is called) is to get rid of hierarchical menus. Are we reinventing them now?

Anyway, I have no idea how to achieve it. I have not found any info about this stuff.

I experimented a bit and found this approach to be helpful - still not the right thing!

Under Gnome enter this:

;--- command
gsettings get org.gnome.shell app-folder-categories
;---

It returns something like this:

['Utilities', 'Sundry']

I then added a folder called "LibreOffice"

;--- command
gsettings set org.gnome.shell app-folder-categories ['Utilities', 'Sundry', 'LibreOffice']
;---

After that I altered:

vim /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-applications.menu

And created something like inside that file. It's still missing something because I am new to this kind of "subfolder" stuff myself. It works somehow but still shows LibreOffice duplicated.

;--- cut here
  <!-- LibreOffice -->
  <Menu>
    <Name>LibreOffice</Name>
    <Directory>LibreOffice.directory</Directory>
    <Include>
      <Filename>libreoffice-calc.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>libreoffice-draw.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>libreoffice-impress.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>libreoffice-math.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>libreoffice-startcenter.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>libreoffice-writer.desktop</Filename>
    </Include>
  </Menu>
;---

I hope I could give some ideas.

Created attachment 858343 [details]
Screenshot

Here's a screenshot showing how it looks within a folder using my approach of achieving this. Please note that this approach is just a "hack" and probably not the right thing to do. But it would be nice to have LibreOffice somehow fit together in a folder.

After some Google magic I came across this page:

http://www.gauthampdas.com/blog/tech/linux/enabling-categories-in-gnome-3-8-shell-application-menu

It told me to enter this:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell app-folder-categories "['Utilities', 'Sundry', 'Office']"

"Office" will enable the office directory for storing office related applications. I really wonder why I have to go such a complicated way to do this and why this is not part of proper setting in gnome-shell bzw. easily setable through GUI driven settings.

Please I still urge, to enable this by default. Google is full of pages written by people asking for folders.

I can't "enable this by default". Installation does not run in user session (in fact, there is no guarantee there is any user session at all), so I simply can't run any gsettings stuff. Anyway, even if that were possible, it would do the change only for the user that run the installation. Unless there is a way do to this by dropping a config. file to some global dir (which would only _add_ a new category, not _modify_ the list of existing ones), it is absolutely no go.