@filip.k: I was close to answer this in a nsfw way; then I thought, maybe you just wanted to help. But honestly, that is the first thing, you would usually do. The thing is, doing it once or twice seems o.k. to me, but since I did not install all apps at once and after some time they might be replaced or I’d install new ones, this procedure becomes more and more annoying. Same thing inside the folders.
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as a side-note
I’m using SFOS since 2017 and to this day the built-in app icons are a mess for me.
Can’t find anything every time…
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Yep, native app search bar is a UX nobrainer.
I’m on LOS23 / A16 until J2 lands, and app search is f’n great. You only need to type 1-2 letters, way faster than remembering 10s of.app icon positions.
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Yes, I’m talking about something exactly like this.
that’s exactly what the app quick launch does
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Feel like another problem created by sailfish os not being open source… if it is open source someone will have definitely created an app/hack that can do it years ago.
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Well, thats not a reason per-se…for instance it is not required to make use of any patches, so that proves there is means to achieve results even in the current configuration of sailfishos.
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LunaOS is basically the modern day spiritual descendant of webOS (but with QML instead of HTML, and built using some similar~ish distro base as SailfishOS)
And that’s exactly the Quick search bar I was refering in my reply before
(I was a a big webOS* user before SailfishOS)
(*: In fact, I’ve always been running GNU/Linux disto on my phone, I’ve never daily driven Android, 
)
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I use QuickLaunch and Custom Partnerspace.
For running partnerspace I installed cutes. I have to search my source at the 64bit variant from Custom Partnerspace. Update: I found the source and some helpful infos in a old post from me.
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Yes, QuickLaunch is the current next best option, but it should still be core UX, and thereby better polished for details.
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- Will it be much easier if it is open source?
- This thread is about app search bar. Your app is not even relevant. I appreciate you spending time developing apps for sailfishos, but not everything is about you, save your ego….
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i wish I had an ego 
my point was more about the feasibility; but I will edit the post as you are right, this is about app search.
And btw, just because “its open source” it doesnt mean its easier.
I think it will be easier, compared from my experience dealing with ubuntu touch. It being opensource means that you are left with more than APIs (and to be honest Jolla’s document is not very up to date/well maintained. Neither is ubuntu, but you can directly check the code.), you can find actual bus calls and corresponding lomiri componenets and what they wrap up and go far deeper to actually hack the DE to add this search bar.
I did tried to do this to sailfish some years ago, and I remember giving up for failing to find some information. but YMMV.
Perhaps; but as said, even with the already available things one can do alot; provided that he/she is willing to dig. But that’s usually not very different from Open source projects, at least to my experience.