Update v6.6 - dev.8

[TBog]

• faster app start (use DB cached apps)
• remove "Favorites"
• fix restore default name for filters and actions
• allow tags as initial result list
• don't record tags in launch history
• show icon pack icon in settings
• fix crash when selecting default icon on tags
• fix tag icon not updating in the tags manager
• use tag icon in settings

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This discussion was created from the release Update v6.6 - dev.8.

[TBog]

Except for the ripple bug if there are no more issues I'm going to make a stable release out of this.

[ltguillaume]

• Regression It seems that now it's impossible to show the tags as result list: you can only choose a single tag for a gesture
• Consistency You're using both "quick list" and "Quick List", in the same popup menu. Maybe it's just better to rename "quick list" to "dock", since most people know what a dock is in a launcher and the quick list basically is just that? It also has the benefit of not making the popup so wide.
• Small bug Choose "Uninstall" and then "Cancel": app is still gone from the list until you reopen or start searching.

[TBog]

Unfortunately I can't really quickly find out if you pressed Cancel or not. I'll think of an alternative...

[ltguillaume]

This is what I would probably come up with (as some pseudo code):

uninstall(position) {
  uninstalling = resultList(position).packageName
  startUninstallIntent
}

onResume {
  if (uninstalling) {
    if (!stillExists(packageName))
      removeFromList(packageName)
    uninstalling = null
  }
}

[TBog]

As far as I can tell, at least on my device, uninstalling is done in the background and is not a fast process and so the launcher resumes before the app vanishes.
I do have a broadcast receiver from KISS that should handle this but I had some issues in the past with it. Don't remember specifics.
I'll test it out again. Here is the commit 4737a93

[ltguillaume]

Aaah yes that makes total sense. Hope the broadcast receiver now works, would indeed be the best solution then.

[ltguillaume]

Seems fixed in 6.7

[ltguillaume]

Could you explain to me what I should/should not see with the option "Show "Quick List" shortcut badge"? I guess I'm not seeing a difference because I set custom icons?

[TBog]

the shortcut badge is a small icon with the original app the shortcut was created from.
That option should show or hide that small icon in the QuickList

[ltguillaume]

Aaah ok, so it's "Show shortcut badges in Quick List". Got it!

From the way it's written, I thought it would be a badge in the result list to indicate that the app was in the Quick List, which seemed odd.

[ltguillaume]

I just found out that with (one of) the latest dev build(s), the keyboard also shows when you open a tag (or the tags list) when not yet in search mode. I don't think people would want to search by text if they explicitly open a group of apps, because that searches through all apps. I think that before, the keyboard wouldn't open when opening tags from the tags menu, or directly from the dock (when you pin the dock to the widget mode, for example), right?

It may even be a good idea to explicitly close the keyboard if people click on a tag (or the tags list) from the dock, when already in search mode.