Reviving the bulk-add to folder request…
Posted by: pierrot | on June 23, 2014
I really think LLx needs a quick checkbox-list interface for managing the items contained within a folder. Every other launcher I’ve used has this, and it’s enough of a limitation to prevent me from organizing as well as I’d like!
I tried the solution suggested in another post – using long-press -> add to launcher on each item for multi-add BUT this only seems to work for desktop folders. The folders in my app drawer have no “add items” menu choice, so I can’t multi-add. Plus, this method is still much slower than selecting a set of items from (e.g.) one of those listbox with checkboxes things.
I love LLx and appreciate all of your work that goes into it, and I hope you can consider this suggestion. Thanks!
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I agree. Especially when you have a folder already populated and later want to add several similar items. I find myself trying to remember what is already in the folder and wind up with duplicated items I then have to delete.
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You cannot add items in a folder in the app drawer, you can move them from the main app drawer, but not create new items. Each app should appear only once in the whole app drawer. Although this is an arbitrary limitation. Otherwise the app drawer would be just yet another desktop, and this isn’t its purpose.
While long press/add is certainly slower than checkboxes, I don’t think this is something that need to be done frequently.
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I agree with your point about multiple instances of items in the app drawer – although variations do exist – but I still think the current setup is a usability challenge. Long-press add doesn’t work on app drawer folders, so the only option is to slowly drag each item being moved into its respective folder. It’s not a frequent thing, but I have a lot of apps installed and I somewhat frequently reinstall my phone’s system. Folder assignments on backup/restore or even uninstall/reinstall seem to be capriciously preserved, and so the process of organizing apps to the point where my drawer is manageable becomes long and tiresome.
Obviously it’s your choice as the developer whether this is worth the investment of time, but I think it would improve usability for a good number of the “tinkerer” users to whom LLx particularly appeals.
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My thing is adding items to a folder on the desktop. Let’s say I added my utilities to a folder. A month later I want to add some more that I downloaded over the last month. I go to all apps with the folder open on the desktop and start to long press add. I cannot see the folder so I have to guess which ones I don’t already have.
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I have a personal script that checks the apps between two folders, I use it to manually ‘sync’ my games folder in the desktop with my games folder in the app drawer.
I’ll try to publish it if you want.
Keep in mind it only says which apps are missing, it doesn’t add them (not possible with scripting)
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That would be a good work around but I still think when Add brings up the App Folder it would be better to have a multi select option where items already in the folder were already checked. The only problem with that is you could no longer add items multiple times.
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Jonathan Barchi I would suggest not to bother too much about organizing the app drawer, IMHO it is more a tool to find apps (a picker) than a tool to launch apps. The app drawer has customization capabilities, but maybe this is overkill and it should have been kept to the bare minimum.
Bob Chernow I understand your point, but the problem is a bit different. What is missing is more a way to see which apps are already there or not, rather than quickly add them. Checked checkboxes are a side effect: if I had implemented this, I probably wouldn’t have think at checking apps according to their presence or not in the target desktop (or folder). As for now maybe you can find missing apps a bit quicker through the “recently updated” tab (but that’s not a generic solution of course)
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Pierre Hébert I guess it comes down to different use styles, but how do you recommend doing this? I have my most frequently used apps accessible without using the drawer, and then I launch less frequently used apps from the drawer… I have a TON of very infrequently used things like system apps though, so I like to move things like that into a couple of category folders (in “my drawer”) and leave the smaller group of somewhat frequently used things in the root of my drawer. It’s not a heavy-handed scheme, but it does get tedious so I welcome alternate suggestions 🙂
I still think the list-picker would be helpful, but it’s not exactly forcing me away from LL. I just thought it would help things feel more polished for a somewhat common use-case.
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