Hello.
I’m a new Lightning user and have been playing with the launcher for just a couple of days, so I’m still getting used to things, but already digging the advanced features, such as bindings, scripts and Tasker integration.
Anyway, I have two apps on my phone, both called Authenticator. One is from Google and the other is from LastPass. They are used to provide codes for 2 factor authentication. The problem is that only the Google app shows up in the app drawer, perhaps because that one was installed first.
Is there a way to get the other app to show up? I could create a Tasker task to launch it and call that from Lightning as a shortcut, but I’d obviously rather just, well, run it directly.
Have I encountered a bug, or is this my unfamiliarity with the launcher showing?
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On app drawer use 3 dots menu and click on Refresh
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Thank you!
So, it was my unfamiliarity with the launcher after all.
Is there a technical reason that the app drawer isn’t auto-refreshed after a new app is installed?
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Refresh is for this point.
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I understand that refresh puts everything in sync, but my question is: Why make the user perform the step? Shouldn’t a refresh of the app drawer automatically occur after every package removal or installation?
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Removal is always done fine
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The issue is that sometimes the ‘new app’ notification is lost, or the launcher has not time to process it. (I think Pierre Hébert doesn’t know the exact reason still, maybe I’m wrong) also in the past there was an auto refresh feature, but it lagged the app drawer and was removed. Not sure if it still does it sometimes. But as Bruno said if you notice that something is wrong, just refresh.
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Thanks for the explanation. I’ll bear it in mind.
I thought the problem was related to two apps having the same name, but that was just a coincidence.
Back to configuring Lightning to look like my Nova desktop…
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Ian Macdonald LLx is much much better than Nova and all other launchers
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Well, “better” is a highly subjective concept, isn’t it?
I’ve only been playing with LL for a few days now, but I can already say with 100% confidence that it’s not the better launcher for a lot of people I know. They wouldn’t know where to start and they would struggle to grasp some of the concepts.
LL certainly seems to be the most configurable and unrestricted launcher of any I’ve used. I suspect that’s what you’re referring to. On the other hand, it takes a lot more work to get some things to work in LL.
Take badges, for example. These are trivial to configure with Nova’s Tesla Unread, but not so with LL.
Nova also has the nice feature of icon normalisation. I’ve become so used to that, that my desktop in LL looks rough by comparison.
I need to configure my full desktop before I make the decision whether to stick with LL. So far, I’ve only configured one page, but that page already uses bindings and Tasker to do a few things that I couldn’t do with Nova. It’s just a lot of work to set up, and the end result isn’t quite as slick-looking as Nova.
So yes, I can agree that LL is better than other launchers in some ways, but not all. Luckily, there are many launchers that we can all choose from.
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Ian Macdonald Much better is the real word for me , all is possible with this launcher.
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