{
  "name": "apps",
  "kind": "bundled",
  "title": "Applications",
  "description": "Installed applications with their own icons: .app bundles on macOS (running ones tagged, with Quit and Hide; the System Settings panes as rows), .desktop entries on Linux (their own actions as secondary actions).",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "icon": "▢",
  "author": "pal",
  "spec": "github:zcag/pal/extensions/apps@pali",
  "source": "https://github.com/zcag/pal/tree/pali/extensions/apps",
  "commit": "a84c75d8e1ff65aae49fd8acc1cf888a84c8a465",
  "manifest": {
    "name": "apps",
    "title": "Applications",
    "description": "Installed applications with their own icons: .app bundles on macOS (running ones tagged, with Quit and Hide; the System Settings panes as rows), .desktop entries on Linux (their own actions as secondary actions).",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "icon": "▢",
    "author": "pal",
    "repo": "bundled",
    "license": "MIT",
    "settings": [
      {
        "kind": "list",
        "id": "folders",
        "label": "Extra folders",
        "description": "Scanned in addition to the system's application folders.",
        "placeholder": "/path/to/apps",
        "default": []
      }
    ],
    "store": {
      "tagline": "Every installed app, with its icon, a keystroke from launch",
      "category": "productivity",
      "features": [
        "macOS: `.app` bundles in `/Applications`, `/System/Applications` and `~/Applications`, one level deep so the Utilities folders come along",
        "Linux: `.desktop` entries from every XDG data dir and the flatpak exports, hidden and `NoDisplay` ones skipped",
        "The bundle id and the display name are keywords, so `com.apple.` or `Chrome` finds the app",
        "A running app carries a green `Running` tag and gains Quit (`cmd+q`) and Hide (`cmd+h`)",
        "35 System Settings panes as rows on macOS: `Keyboard`, `Displays`, `Privacy \u0026 Security`, found by words like `dark mode` or `dns`",
        "A `.desktop` file's own actions (`New Private Window`) are the row's secondary actions on Linux",
        "`cmd+i` shows the path, bundle id, version and whether it runs"
      ],
      "permissions": [
        "automation"
      ],
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux"
      ],
      "screenshots": [
        {
          "file": "1-list.png",
          "caption": "The applications, their source as the subtitle, the running ones tagged"
        },
        {
          "file": "2-search.png",
          "caption": "Typing at the root: the name, the bundle id and the display name all match"
        },
        {
          "file": "3-actions.png",
          "caption": "A running app: Open, Quit, Hide, Reveal in Finder, Copy path, Copy bundle id"
        },
        {
          "file": "4-panes.png",
          "caption": "The System Settings panes are rows too, found by what they hold"
        }
      ],
      "actions": [
        {
          "title": "Open",
          "keys": "enter"
        },
        {
          "title": "Quit",
          "description": "Asks the app through AppleScript, so it may ask you to save; a toast when it is not running.",
          "keys": "cmd+q"
        },
        {
          "title": "Hide",
          "description": "Through System Events.",
          "keys": "cmd+h"
        },
        {
          "title": "Reveal in Finder",
          "keys": "cmd+shift+r"
        },
        {
          "title": "Copy path",
          "keys": "cmd+c"
        },
        {
          "title": "Copy bundle id",
          "keys": "cmd+shift+c"
        },
        {
          "title": "Copy URL",
          "description": "On a System Settings pane: its x-apple.systempreferences: link.",
          "keys": "cmd+c"
        }
      ]
    },
    "palettes": {
      "apps": {
        "tier": "primary",
        "kind": "list",
        "description": "Everything that launches.",
        "keys": [
          {
            "keys": "enter",
            "title": "Open the app"
          },
          {
            "keys": "cmd+q",
            "title": "Quit a running app"
          },
          {
            "keys": "cmd+h",
            "title": "Hide a running app"
          },
          {
            "keys": "cmd+shift+r",
            "title": "Reveal in Finder"
          },
          {
            "keys": "cmd+c",
            "title": "Copy the path (a pane: its URL)"
          },
          {
            "keys": "cmd+shift+c",
            "title": "Copy the bundle id"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "updated_at": "2026-09-16T16:35:58Z",
  "url": "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps",
  "tagline": "Every installed app, with its icon, a keystroke from launch",
  "category": "productivity",
  "screenshots": [
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/1-list.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/2-search.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/3-actions.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/4-panes.png"
  ],
  "panel_screenshots": [
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/1-list.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/2-search.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/3-actions.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/4-panes.png"
  ],
  "bar_screenshots": [],
  "has_bar": false,
  "bar_items": [],
  "has_readme": true
}