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mjpitts

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Re: [APP 4.0+] Nova Launcher - 2.0.1 Feb 26 2013


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andrologo

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nova launcher hd widgets stretched

Hi all , i use hd widgets with nova launcher 2.0.1 on a nexus 7 4.2.2 stock , but widgets appear stretched and oversized.. instead with apex launcher hd widgets work perfectly. I don't understand why.
 
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Peacen1k

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Nova Prime 2.0.1: after the update the one-finger swipe down gesture is not working after wake/unlock. Starts working after swiping to a different screen. This happens regardless of which screen the phone wakes up on.
 

Peacen1k

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I can't reproduce. Can you give more data? Device/ROM/gesture target

Gesture target is expanding the notifications drop-down. Device and ROM are in my sig: SGS2 i777, ROM is SuperNexus build 5.

I can reliably reproduce this behavior:
1. Lock phone (screen goes dark).
2. Wake and unlock phone.
3. Swipe down with 1 finger.
3.1 This gets a correct response after several swipes, or making the swipe longer.
3.2 and sometimes is interpreted incorrectly as a swipe up.
3.3 Other gestures seem to work better, however still not as responsive as before the update.
4. Swiping to a different screen restores full functionality, correctly interpreting even short (about 2 icon rows' height) swipes.
 
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ylexot

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We know that it's locked, but it's a pain when you are trying to do something and it keeps popping up.

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Isn't that the point of locking the desktop? To prevent you from doing something? Sure, it's supposed to prevent you from accidentally doing something, but the phone can't tell what is intentional and what is accidental.
 

mjpitts

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Re: [APP 4.0+] Nova Launcher - 2.0.1 Feb 26 2013

Isn't that the point of locking the desktop? To prevent you from doing something? Sure, it's supposed to prevent you from accidentally doing something, but the phone can't tell what is intentional and what is accidental.

It can still prevent without a popup.

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chikimonke

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I have to admit, that does look annoying. Why would you need to lock your homescreen though? I could imagine using the functionality on a Development Tablet, where you don't want members of your team messing with the layout...

Every now and then when my phone hiccups on me I end up accidentally flinging a widget or folder to a different home screen. Also useful if you have kids and let them use your device. However, I ultimately disabled the lock feature because it seemed to pop up all the time when I tried to open a folder in my dock that was all the way to one edge. Not sure if it's the phone/software causing that, or by virtue of being there it causes me to make a slightly different motion with my thumb, but it got annoying.
 

ganeshp

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I'm seeing lots of nova crashes on my nexus 7 (like at-least once an hour) ..when having an expanded desktop (cm10 feature i think) ..also cant edit/change the apps and widgets when in expanded desktop mode ..sent some crashes via the app ..hope this gets fixed (might be problem with the rom im using ..but not sure who is at fault :/)

Ignoring those small hiccups best app ive bought until now after TB is This ..awesome Launcher when on AOSP/AOKP/CM :D
 

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Re: [APP 4.0+] Nova Launcher - 2.0.1 Feb 26 2013

I have to admit, that does look annoying. Why would you need to lock your homescreen though? I could imagine using the functionality on a Development Tablet, where you don't want members of your team messing with the layout...

I use it all the time with my daughter. I like the way Nova sets it up too because you can edit the screen without actually unlocking the screen. To get rid of it just look in setting and make sure "Lock Desktop" isn't checked.

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Spacemonkie4207

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Re: [APP 4.0+] Nova Launcher - 2.0.1 Feb 26 2013

Launcher is soo smooth.

One small request. I would love it if there was an option to disable the blue boxes in tablet scroll effect.

Keep up the great work :)

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carlos67

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I have to admit, that does look annoying. Why would you need to lock your homescreen though? I could imagine using the functionality on a Development Tablet, where you don't want members of your team messing with the layout...

Instead of locking the desktop, why not just backup your Nova settings and then if you do something unintentional you just need to restore Nova's settings and you've undone any "damage"
 

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Can we have option to get rid of the popup when the desktop is locked?

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Yes, please! I've locked it exactly not to have to deal with some "unexpected" things showing up...

So, when you try to do something intentionally on a locked desktop and it just looks at you blankly, you're not going to complain?

for crying out loud - I'm aware that I've locked the screen, it's not enabled by default, I know where to disable it. What is your problem with others having locked screen and being annoyed by this screen? Do you use locking?

I have to admit, that does look annoying. Why would you need to lock your homescreen though? I could imagine using the functionality on a Development Tablet, where you don't want members of your team messing with the layout...

For me it's because I tend to grab my phone probably in some particular way which often triggers movement of widgets and then they end up on different desktop and this causes re-arangement of icons there and then I have to manually move everything back to it's place - highly annoying...

Instead of locking the desktop, why not just backup your Nova settings and then if you do something unintentional you just need to restore Nova's settings and you've undone any "damage"

<facepalm>
so instead of having ordered desktop all the time (minus annoying popup) you suggest I should do a restore-settings a few times a day? sounds like FUN!
 

mahercs

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Instead of locking the desktop, why not just backup your Nova settings and then if you do something unintentional you just need to restore Nova's settings and you've undone any "damage"

<facepalm>
so instead of having ordered desktop all the time (minus annoying popup) you suggest I should do a restore-settings a few times a day? sounds like FUN!

Also, restoring the settings doesn't "restore" all the widgets, so this may actually casue more work than putting something back that accidentally got moved/erased. I tried the lock feature, but the popup annoyed me too so I turned it off. Need a happy medium, I guess
 

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