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Installed Lion - all great appart from launchpad. It is full of junk applications, like installers, support apps etc and all the parallels windows apps (Why?).
Any one know how to stop LauchPad showing all the junk apps or maybe a way to hide apps?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
Yeah it takes a while to do it but worth it.
I removed a load of apps no longer used - got the main screen all the daily apps and second screen all apps sorted by category. Very easy to find an app now.
Dragging apps around one at a time to fix this will take hours! :-/
Oppurtunity here for a $1.99 app to be created...
What setting is this and where is it? I couldn't find it.
I would really like the ability to prevent certain apps from being shown Launchpad, similer to the "Remove from Dock" option. feature request?
Dragging apps around one at a time to fix this will take hours! :-/Oppurtunity here for a $1.99 app to be created...
LOL! If you can find your developer apps in Launchpad, I say go for it! 😉
Launchpad is a massive fail for me. It's populated EIGHT PAGES of totally unsorted apps and there's no way to remove apps you don't want or to drag/drop multiple apps etc.
So that's it, launched it once, will never open it again.
Back to Overflow which I've been using for years now. Far better implementation.
Yeah. Lauchpad is garbage. I have a dock. That's where I put my frequently used apps. I see them. I click on them. Its clean and simple. My iPhone has essentially a launch pad. It works great there and it very useful for a hand held device. I don't have a mouse with my iPhone so the iOS approach is appropriate. My desktop is not a handheld and I don't want to use it as such. I've reverted to SL and will remain there.
I think if you're using Lion with a mouse, I can sort of understand what you mean, but with a Magic Trackpad it works superbly - just as intuitive as iOS.
Launchpad, I believe, works really well too. The inital tihng with loads of apps is a bit of a pain, but you only have to sort it once, then you're done.
iPhones and iPads are a pain initally too until you take the time to organise your apps into folders. Again, when it's done, it's done.
My Applications folder in Snow Leopard was set up like this:
(yeah yeah I know Apple prefers all apps in the Applications folder, but I really can’t get into the “Junk Drawer” filing method)
The apps in the top-level Apps folder like iTunes showed up in Launchpad, but the apps I’ve sorted into sub-folders showed weird sortings. e.g. in the example above, Blender.app (in a sub-folder) would show up inside the Art folder, but Pixelmator (without a sub-folder) would be thrown out on the top level. Even though they’re both in the same folder on the drive.
What I did was change everything to the following format, then used Terminal to trash the Dock cache so it would refresh Launchpad, as detailed here .
Making sure each app was in a sub folder inside its category folder like this made all my Art apps appear in a Launchpad folder automatically. I mean I could drag them all, one. by. one…but please.
Makes no sense at all. But it’s still at v. 1.0 , so it’ll no doubt get tweaked as time goes on. This process got me close enough to a reasonably filed-away state without having to manually drag 400,000 individual apps, so I’m reasonably happy.
Some Application Icons are needed. But not in Lauchpad.
Like those uninstallers. Then there are double entries of Apps you may have been moving into (real) folders and so on.
The "workaround" for this is here:
http://gnuu.org/2011/07/21/clearing-launchpad-and-other-osx-lion-tips/
only you are still not going to like it 🙂
I agree. Launchpad is completely useless. It's clearly meant for consumers, not professionals. In my case I have way too many applications, and a lot of those apps have peripheral applications (uninstallers, license key validators, etc). Seems to me that consumers would have far fewer things in their applications folder, making Launchpad--PERHAPS--a little more sensibile for them. But I feel Lion is not professional-friendly as a whole. Launchpad is only one example.
From this source: http://gnuu.org/2011/07/21/clearing-launchpad-and-other-osx-lion-tips/
Copy paste the following into terminal.
sqlite3 ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db "DELETE from apps; \
DELETE from groups WHERE title<>''; DELETE from items WHERE rowid>2;" \
&& killall DockThis will cause both dock and launchpad to quit and will wipe launchpad's database. Your dock will remain unchanged, but the launchpad will be empty. Now simply drag and drop into launchpad. I use launchpad for my second tier apps. Go to / frequent apps go in the dock.
Waaaay cheaper than a $1.99.
Chris
I see this thread was started a long time ago, but since there's a (fairly) recent post, and since this is the top result on Google right now, I wanted to add another solution to the issue.
There's a free app out there called Launchpad Control. I haven't tried it personally, but MacLife has a nice tutorial. Looks like it's just what the doctor ordered. You can re-arrange apps by page, hide undesired apps, even create and edit folders.
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_configure_launchpad_launchpad_control
Thank you, finally a solution that will actually work. Anyone using the app should before making changes run a "Backup" which is part of the app and again a "Restore" also part of the app in case things went wrong. The restore will only show up after a "Restart" (actually I ran "Shut down" and restarted).
As so many people said "launchpad control" should have been part of the OS, come on Apple, you owe that to your customers.
LaunchPad full of junk applications
