Under gnome 3, you can customize the names and contents of folders/groups in the full-screen application grid by clicking on the edit button or dragging-and-dropping. You can also create new groups by dragging-and-dropping one application icon onto another.
Under Zorin all these things are impossible. You cannot change the contents or name of the “Utilities” group (the only group present) in the full-screen app grid. All dragging-and-dropping of apps into or out of a group is disallowed and there is no edit button next to the name.
How can I restore this functionality, and why was it disabled?
Also the extension “Appfolders-management” doesn’t work.
I found a way to put applications into appfolders through software center, but it still doesn’t allow me to remove them from “Utilities”. Wow Zorin really is making basic customization hard…
The ability to customize the icon layout and folders from within the full-screen app grid was added in Gnome Shell 3.34. As Zorin OS 15 is based on Ubuntu 18.04, it uses a slightly earlier version of Gnome Shell to ensure stability. As a result, you will need to use the Software store to do this in the meantime.
You can remove system apps from the “Utilities” folder by following these steps:
Open the Software store > Installed
Scroll down to the “System Application” section
Click on the ✓ (select) button in the top-right corner of the Software store window
Select the apps you wish to remove from the “Utilities” folder
Press the “Remove from Folder” button at the bottom of the window
The ability to customize the icon layout and folders from within the app grid will be added in the next major version of Zorin OS, which will ship with the latest version of Gnome Shell.
Thank you @AZorin. My apologies for assuming the feature was removed instead of not yet available.
I found those steps elsewhere already and followed them, but that only removed some of the apps from the Utilities AppFolder. The remaining ones are Archive Manager, Backups, Characters, Disk Usage, Disks, Fonts, Logs and Screenshot. If I try to select those again, “Remove from folder” is greyed out. They’re still in Utilities.
Someone a while back on the old forum was asking when would Zorin Grid be ready and forgot about the project Team Zorin are working on (Silly me) and suggested this as the [wrong in that instance] answer - I don’t know how ‘tweakable’ it is: