Just discovered Lightning and I’m loving its flexibility!
Just discovered Lightning and I’m loving its flexibility! I’d love to be able to do some of the things I’m used to in other launchers, though…
One of my favorite features in both Nova and AL3 is the ability to set most of my folders so that tapping on the folder opens an app (the first app in the folder), but swiping up on the folder opens the folder itself. When I’ve used those launchers, most of my icons worked this way – so for example, clicking on my Map icon would open Google Maps, but swiping on it would show me all my mapping and navigation apps.
Is there any way I can make this the default behavior for folders in LL?
Here’s my current process, manually for each folder:
1. Edit folder properties
2. Set “tap” to “Launch an app”
3. Select the app from the (long) list of all my apps.
4. Set “Swipe up” to “Launch the item”
This gives me the behavior I want, but it’s a lot of work per-folder. After doing this, each folder still looks like a folder – other launchers set the folder icon to match the icon of the first app. If I want to do that here, it gets even more complicated:
1. Choose “Customize Item”
2. Choose “Select an icon”
3. Select “External file browser”
4. Select my preferred icon pack from the sidebar
5. Find the icon for the app I selected
And if I’m not using an icon pack, and just want to use the app’s default icon, it’s even harder – I’m honestly not sure how to do that at all.
Any way to simplify the above process?
D5 Creation
Maybe the copy and paste option could be helpfull.
Except that would copy which app is launched! Every folder should open a different app, and selecting that manually is a significant fraction of the effort. It’d be nice if one of the available actions was “Open first item in folder”…
I tried some things but I didn’t find a faster solution.
That’s LL – many great and tricky functions but less automatisms in customizing. Never the less I love it. It’s like a multi-dimension-puzzle. You can’t stop trying something new. So each project is open ended :o)
You should use scripts (more advanced, but they allow for automation)
On the repository you can find this one lightninglauncher.com – script_launch_first_item [Lightning Launcher] and it should work (couldn’t test)
If you are not familiar with scripts and you need help to use it just ask.
For the image as icon editing the script should be an easy task, unfortunately I can’t currently help.