How to organize many app icons?

Question

I don't like to have too many launch icons in the Unity Launch bar (using Precise Ubuntu). So I put my most used app icons on the desktop. However, I'm now running out of space on the desktop. Any suggestions as to how to put the least used app icons somewhere else in order to reduce the clutter on the desktop?

Answer 1

Drawers (https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/drawers/) does the job well.

Answer 2

You can put frequent used apps on Unity Interface and well for the rest, (less frequently used apps),its a suggestion, you can install indicator-synapse which is alternative of Mac Spotlight.

Look at the upper left colored icon, (there you can quickly search applications) and you don’t need to clutter your desktop.

If you want to install, run this in terminal :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps  
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-synapse

Hope that helps, Let me know.