Unable to create app groups in gnome shell

Question

Can anyone please guide me, how to make app groups in GNOME Shell?

I have tried

gsettings set org.gnome.shell app-folder-categories "['Utilities', 'Sundry', 'Games' ]"

but it did not worked. Edited the or.gnome.shell.desktop.xml file, still did not worked.

How should I proceed?

Answer 1

This is no longer possible in this way, see below for the new way.

Therefore, the usual steps do not work anymore:

• Open dconf-editor
• Navigate to org/gnome/shell
• Locate the entry app-folder-categories and add or remove categories

Another proof:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.shell app-folder-categories "['Utilities', 'Sundry', 'Games' ]"
No such key 'app-folder-categories'

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The currently working way

• Create a folder Audio

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders folder-children "['Audio']"
  

• Set the name Audio

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders.folder:/org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/Audio/ name 'Audio'
  

• Add some apps

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.app-folders.folder:/org/gnome/desktop/app-folders/folders/Audio/ apps "['audacious.desktop', 'brasero.desktop']"
  

_{More examples and category based folders here}

Answer 2

The location has apparently changed, it resides presently now in dconf-editor under:

• org → gnome → desktop → app-folders

Also, you can now create new groups from gnome-software natively, the UI now has options for making new groups and add applications to them. I personally just add groups from gnome-software and then change values in dconf to add applications.