{
  "name": "apps",
  "kind": "bundled",
  "title": "Applications",
  "description": "Launch any installed app by name, with its own icon. On macOS, running apps can be quit or hidden and the System Settings panes are rows too; on Linux, an app's own actions are one key away.",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "icon": {
    "tile": {
      "glyph": "󰀻",
      "bg": "slate"
    }
  },
  "author": "pal",
  "spec": "github:zcag/pal/extensions/apps@v0.17.4",
  "source": "https://github.com/zcag/pal-extensions/tree/HEAD/apps",
  "commit": "4d2559cf9c04d0133c97d7c897f19a14acb9eace",
  "manifest": {
    "name": "apps",
    "title": "Applications",
    "description": "Launch any installed app by name, with its own icon. On macOS, running apps can be quit or hidden and the System Settings panes are rows too; on Linux, an app's own actions are one key away.",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "icon": {
      "tile": {
        "glyph": "󰀻",
        "bg": "slate"
      }
    },
    "author": "pal",
    "repo": "bundled",
    "license": "MIT",
    "settings": [
      {
        "kind": "list",
        "id": "folders",
        "local": true,
        "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": [
        "Every app in your Applications folders on macOS, every `.desktop` entry and flatpak on Linux",
        "Found by name or bundle id, so `Chrome` or `com.apple.` both work",
        "Running apps are tagged, with Quit (`cmd+q`) and Hide (`cmd+h`)",
        "System Settings panes as rows on macOS, found by words like `dark mode` or `dns`",
        "On Linux, an app's own actions (`New Private Window`) as secondary actions",
        "`cmd+i` shows where it lives, its version, bundle id and processes"
      ],
      "permissions": [
        "automation"
      ],
      "platforms": [
        "macos",
        "linux"
      ],
      "screenshots": [
        {
          "file": "1-list.png",
          "caption": "The applications by name, the running ones tagged"
        },
        {
          "file": "2-search.png",
          "caption": "Typing at the root finds an app by its bundle id as well as its name: ical is Calendar (com.apple.iCal)"
        },
        {
          "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: network finds Network and Wi-Fi"
        },
        {
          "file": "5-detail.png",
          "caption": "An app's details (cmd+i): its folder, running and its version, the bundle id and processes"
        }
      ],
      "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": {
        "title": "Applications",
        "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"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
  "playable": false,
  "updated_at": "2026-11-02T04:38:11Z",
  "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-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/1-list.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/2-search-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/2-search.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/3-actions-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/3-actions.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/4-panes-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/4-panes.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/5-detail-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/5-detail.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",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/5-detail.png"
  ],
  "bar_screenshots": [],
  "panel_screenshots_dark": [
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/1-list-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/2-search-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/3-actions-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/4-panes-dark.png",
    "https://pal.cagdas.io/extensions/apps/screenshots/5-detail-dark.png"
  ],
  "bar_screenshots_dark": [],
  "has_bar": false,
  "bar_items": [],
  "has_links": false,
  "links": [],
  "multi": false,
  "has_readme": true
}