Suggestions for the new icon picker:

Suggestions for the new icon picker:

I apologize that I did’t suggested this before, in the beta, but I didn’t need to use the new icon picker until now.

First: Personally I only need to change an icon when I make a custom shortcut ( with a script or whatever) and so I need to choose the icon of an app. Previously I always used your beta app ‘App icon picker’ but unfortunately it doesn’t work now.

This is a dual suggestion/solution, but of course you can implement both.

A way will be a custom button when selecting icon packs to launch the original intent of the icon pack (perhaps other packs as yours don’t have internally the icons, or they let you modify it/whatever) [if this is implemented somewhere, please tell me 🙂 ]

Another way will be a new option ‘app icon’ or perhaps add the icon as the first item when selecting ‘application’ and choosing the app you want.

WAIT: before you say anything I want to add that I know that the icon is there in the ‘application’ option, with the name ‘icon’, but when I choose it the quality is low, very low. That didn’t happen with the previously mentioned method.

This made me think in the second suggestion: As you said a lot of times, the size of the icon is selected based on the size of the item and similar. But how difficult will be to choose the size with the new icon picker? Perhaps with custom size or just with ‘original’/ ‘recommended’/’low’ (original icon, the current behaviour, and a low icon respectively).

And just to finish, the third suggestion is just something to help and easy to do. When you choose the ‘launcher images’ option, there is a list of all containers…with the id. Why don’t write their name/type? The same change as you did when the shortcut to folder option ( from id to name, but now if possible also type).

Oh and perhaps as another suggestion, but not important, some little arrows to pass between the options, specially useful with the launcher images.

As usual, only suggestions.

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2 Commentsto Suggestions for the new icon picker:

  1. Anonymous says:

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    I didn’t notice the standalone app icon picker didn’t work anymore 🙁


    Low icon quality is pobably a bug too (I can see it on some apps). I need to check this but the wrong icon density is probably selected, I suspect it can be seen in particular on tablets because launchers need to use some extra bits of data to select the right icon.


    A manual size is possible, but involves several criteria. There is the image size, but also this density for which it has been extracted. Usually apps will provide a given icon in several sizes, one for each supported screen density. Hence you first need to select the density, then possibly resize the image for that density. Depending on some Android hints the launcher selects a density class.


    When selecting pictures from a file explorer or another picker, then the density is not involved.

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  2. Anonymous says:

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    Pierre Hébert, when you long click an icon a toast appear with the name of the icon.


    Could you made it with the package name when selecting an application? I mean to choose application, select an app in the list and when you long click that app the package name is shown (as when renaming scripts)


    Another possibility is to append it in that description (Lightning Launcher – net.pierrox.lightning_launcher )



    I ask because now that we can extract images it will avoid need to use another app to know that package name.

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