App menu

Hide the apps you never open, and find the rest by typing

Nextcloud 34 puts every enabled app behind one waffle button, in a 292px four-column grid. On this instance that is 27+ entries for an ordinary account, in one flat alphabetical-ish list, with labels that wrap mid-word ("Announcem ents", "Coremail Sync Bridge"). Core offers ordering — Settings → Appearance and accessibility sorts the list and writes core.apporder — but there is no way to hide an app you never open, and nothing to search.

This app adds the missing half, per account:

• Hide apps from your own menu. Everyone sees the same enabled apps; each person chooses which ones clutter their own waffle. Hiding is cosmetic — the app stays enabled and its URLs keep working, so a hidden app opened from a link or a bookmark still loads normally.
• Search inside the menu. With more than a handful of apps, typing two letters beats reading a grid.
• An admin default so new accounts start from a sensible short list instead of everything.

How the hiding works, and why

Nextcloud app id	jocor_launcher
Version	2.1.0
Nextcloud	30–34
Licence	AGPL-3.0-or-later

See it running

It runs on cloud.jo-cor.com. Ask Jo for an account (or register at cloud.jo-cor.com/apps/registration and wait for approval).

Run it on your own Nextcloud

cd /path/to/nextcloud/custom_apps
git clone https://git.jo-cor.com/jocor/nextcloud-jocor_launcher.git jocor_launcher
sudo -u www-data php ../occ app:enable jocor_launcher

Contribute

1. Sign in at git.jo-cor.com with Sign in with jo-cor-cloud (your cloud.jo-cor.com account).
2. Fork this repository, make your change on a branch, and open a pull request.

Invited contributors can also push over SSH; the connection details come with the invite.

Changes reach cloud.jo-cor.com only after review: the live server deploys from git, never from hand edits.