Add YAML config flag to hide a specific folder

[duraki]

Something like would be a good addition (note the hidden flag):

    - folder: Miscellaneous
      hidden: true
      pages:
      - number: 1
        items:
        - Assistant
        - Designer
        - IDLE
        - Linguist
        - Python Launcher
        - Linguist
        - pixeltool
        - qdbusviewer
        - qml
        - qwingraph
        - TestFlight

This way, we can stuff rarely used apps in a specific folder that will be hidden from the launchpad view.

[blacktop]

Do you know if this is something that Apple actually allows to happen w/ it's launchpad app folders?

[blacktop]

I see that there is an old tool that does this by putting the hidden items on a -1 row index, but that repo has been abandoned due to apple re-indexing the DBs, so it might not be possible any more?

[blacktop]

I was able to remove apps by removing them from the apps table, but not sure if Apple would re-add them on reboot or not?

[duraki]

I'm not sure, but I think Apple macOS reindex them postboot. I will have to spin up my ~trashbox vm and give it a shot.

Will update ASAP insAllah

[duraki]

Hi @blacktop - I'm running macOS Sonoma with VirtualBuddy virtualising macOS Ventura. This is my trashbox. It seems that macOS Ventura reindexes two things:

• Safari.app
• Directory Other (empty)

This is pre-reboot. This is the steps taken to execute deletion/removal of default index.

trashbox@trashboxs-Virtual-Machine ~ % cd $(getconf DARWIN_USER_DIR)/com.apple.dock.launchpad/db
trashbox@trashboxs-Virtual-Machine db % cp db db.orig.bak
trashbox@trashboxs-Virtual-Machine db % sqlite3 db
SQLite version 3.39.5 2022-10-14 20:58:05
Enter ".help" for usage hints.

sqlite> delete from apps
sqlite> .dump apps
PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
BEGIN TRANSACTION;
CREATE TABLE apps (item_id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, title VARCHAR, bundleid VARCHAR, storeid VARCHAR,category_id INTEGER, moddate REAL, bookmark BLOB);
COMMIT;

Post-reboot, the database now contains self-created app item:

trashbox@trashboxs-Virtual-Machine db % sqlite3 db
SQLite version 3.39.5 2022-10-14 20:58:05
Enter ".help" for usage hints.

sqlite> select * from apps;
76|Safari|com.apple.Safari||2|697765563.0|book`

The 2nd reboot is same - ie. it contains only Safari and that directory, and every other reboot seems like it. I'm not sure where exactly are directories stored in the launchpad db to experiment a bit with default values being reindexed.

Kindly.