AppGrid — KDE Plasma 6 Application Launcher
A grid-style application launcher for KDE Plasma 6. Ships as two plasmoids — a standalone centered popup (AppGrid) and a native Plasma panel popup (AppGrid Panel) — both sharing the same grid, search, categories, and config.
Install
Built, signed, and published by the AppGrid maintainer. These are the channels safe to recommend by default.
| Distro |
Command |
| Arch Linux + derivatives (AUR) |
yay -S plasma6-applets-appgrid |
| Ubuntu 25.10+ (Launchpad PPA) |
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xarbit/plasma-applet-appgrid && sudo apt install plasma-applet-appgrid |
| Fedora (Copr) |
sudo dnf copr enable scujas/plasma-applet-appgrid && sudo dnf install plasma-applet-appgrid |
| Immutable distros (KDE Linux, Kinoite, Bazzite, Aurora, Kalpa, SteamOS) |
Universal ~/.local/ tarball — see INSTALL.TXT |
| Nix / NixOS |
Flake — see packaging/nix/README.md |
After install: right-click the panel launcher → Show Alternatives → AppGrid.
Full per-distro guide with download links, checksums, and step-by-step terminal commands: appgrid.xarbit.dev/#install.
Maintained by third-party contributors, not by the AppGrid project. They are listed here as a convenience for users of those distros; we do not build, sign, audit, or vet the packages and cannot vouch for what each maintainer ships. Please open issues against the linked overlay/package, not this repo.
If you maintain an AppGrid package for a distro not listed here, open an issue and we will add you.
Build from source
Requires Plasma 6.8+ (Wayland) and the KDE Frameworks 6 development headers; for older Plasma 6 releases, use AppGrid 1.9.x — see PKGBUILD for the Arch list, or packaging/ for the Fedora spec and Ubuntu debian/ packaging.
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
cmake --build build -j$(nproc)
sudo cmake --install build
kquitapp6 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell
Arch users can build a proper pacman package with makepkg -sf and install via sudo pacman -U plasma6-applets-appgrid-*.pkg.tar.zst.
Documentation
Full docs live on the website: appgrid.xarbit.dev/docs.
Contributing
- Bugs / ideas — open an issue with steps to reproduce and your Plasma version (
i: in the search bar copies your system info)
- Translations —
.po files live in po/; add or improve a language and open a PR
- Code — fork, branch, PR. Keep changes focused; test against both AppGrid Center and AppGrid Panel
- Packaging — if you maintain AppGrid for a distro not listed above, open an issue and I’ll add it
Credits
This project is developed with Claude Code as an AI pair programmer. Context-engineered and reviewed, not vibe-coded — but if AI-assisted code gives you the ick, this might not be the launcher for you.
Acknowledgments
AppGrid stands on the work of the KDE community.
Built with KDE Frameworks 6 & Plasma — KGlobalAccel, KRunner, KIO, KIconThemes, KCoreAddons, KWindowSystem, Plasma::Applet/PlasmaQuick, PlasmaActivities, LayerShellQt. Without these, none of this exists.
Inspired by KDE’s own launchers — Kickoff for the popup layout conventions, Kicker for the SPI patterns we reuse (ProcessRunner, ContainmentInterface), KRunner whose results feed our search via KRunner::ResultsModel.
Thanks to the Plasma team, the Frameworks maintainers, and every contributor whose work AppGrid builds on.
License
GPL-2.0-or-later.
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