December, 2013
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This is an old feature that I suggested to pierre long time ago by email…maybe he missed it so here it is:
When you want to use an icon image to an item (such as a shortcut) you can take icons from ADW packs…but:
Why not a new option: “default icon pack”
Then the app drawer will open, you’ll select an icon, and the item will take only the app default icon image.
IMHO I think it’s useful, and not sure how difficult it’ll be, but if you can take the whole item…why not only the icon.
Again remember: only a suggestion.
]]>This suggestion maybe is not necessary, not sure how many people will like it, but it’s (I think) easy to add, and…
Suggestion: when you have a widget from an app, and you uninstall that app, the widget still appear, but with an error message. You can change it without need to readd another one.
So: why not the same with apps? (And maybe shortcuts, don’t know what happen with them)
My suggestion is to add an option in general settings to ‘keep deleted apps’ with an error message. This way, if you delete an app and install a different one (or the same) you don’t need to readd it again, just click – select app to launch – new app, and then if you want change the icon.
Yes, I know, I can add the new app first, copy style, and delete the old app, but if you have few space, bad memory, others; you’ll maybe find this useful.
…what do you think?
Oh, in the app drawer this would be useless, so not need to implement it there…or maybe with a different option.
]]>Do you remember an old bug (I post it some time ago) in which: when you restart LL from the action “restart” every…
…has come again, but now it’s worst because the only way to fix it is force close it from android settings.
Android 4.4.2
LL 8.8.7
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In the app drawer (the basic, not LLX) when you enable transparent status bar and/or transparent navigation bar the pop-up widget that appear when you long click an item is set to the item below.
Could someone else (remember NOT LLX) test this?
]]>Using item’s icon background/mask for circle/rectangle shapes.
Do you download and install pre-created iconset for circluar/reactangular app icons? Yes, it’s well designed, but it doesn’t provide my all-apps, right?
Using LL’s mask feature, we can have circular/rectangular( or hexagonal, or any shape you like) icons with app’s default one.
You might designe more sophiscated BG/mask image, however, just for enjoying this feature instantly, I uploaed circle/reactnagle images.
Adapting this doesn’t hurt your current desktop icons. If its not good, just set to “Default Icon”, that’s it.
How to adapt it
Goto Custumzing –> Current Desktop –> Items –> ICON
In menu, you see Background images and Mask menu in LAYERS part. In those, you choose each bg/mask image for circle or rectangle.
AND, you also see Inner scale menu in same menu part. Increase it to some value greather than 100%. I used 150%.
I think you could understand why we scale up default icon’s size.
I didnt use overlay image, because I have no good idea, but you may.
Pros: we don’t need to install extra iconpack which has limited one.
Cons: we scale up default icon a liittle, and it may dequalify images.
Wonderful LL~
v8.9.a1
Including panels.
This time this is in the alpha channel, download only if you don’t fear to be on the bleeding edge, and make a backup first. There are various caveats that need to be fixed before a release. You have been warned 😉
Available in around two hours on the Play Store:
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher_extreme
https://play.google.com/apps/testing/net.pierrox.lightning_launcher
]]>I really enjoy fiddling and exploring this launcher.
It would be really nice if instead of the current arrangement, there were internal names for these items like variables, and you use a format string.
Example:
Using text preceded with %symbols used like VB’s format string, or tasker variable names, you could just display %date to use the system format, or something like %dd %mmm %yyyyy to display 07 January 2014. The reason I suggest a % is so things like ‘Today is %mmm %d. You have %gmail unread and your battery is %batt full.’ could be entered as the format text.
I understand this is not a minor tweak but I think it would make the text elements a lot more flexible (they are good even so) and maybe from my not vast programming knowledge make handling and expanding them easier (eg adding one for signal strength would require a new variable name, rather than a new text element, but would need code to manage the value displayed either way)
]]>Allow size as %
Since the saved desktops are able to be installed on devices wit diffrent resolutions I believe they could benifet cross device with this.
Great for folder size and panels. Possibly other areas like font and icons if possible. Columns and rows pretty much already do this.
So are the panels going to have backrounds?
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