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KieronQuinn / Smartspacer

Smartspacer is a customisable widget for Android, but with a difference: It can upgrade the built in At a Glance on Pixels - without root!
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[Suggestion] Add an alternative way to remove widgets from Expanded view #213

Closed lucasdeeiroz closed 2 months ago

lucasdeeiroz commented 3 months ago

Suggestion

I have one widget from Samsung (Battery Status - circle) that is impossible to remove from Smartspace Expanded mode. If long pressed, the buttons get in the way and the remove/reorder/options menu is not shown. Suggestion 1: make an alternative way to remove widgets alongside the 'Add' button, allowing the user to select the widget to be removed. Suggestion 2: make an alternative way to remove widgets inside the reorder page. This one I don't like so much because in my example, I could only enter the reorder page through another widget that allows me to open the reorder/remove/options menu.

KieronQuinn commented 3 months ago

I'm not sure what you mean by the buttons getting in the way, there should be no other buttons. Can you send a screenshot or a screen recording?

lucasdeeiroz commented 3 months ago

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Of course. The button that gets in the way is from the widget itself. I noticed that happens on other widgets as well (Google Calendar is one example), but Battery Status is the only one that this behaviour prevents the menu from opening anywhere in the widget area. In the video, I show the menu opening in YouTube Music and Beeper widgets, but not in Battery Status widget.

KieronQuinn commented 3 months ago

Oh that's what you mean. You can long press outside of the widget area to open the menu, the long press listener's box is always larger than the widget.

lucasdeeiroz commented 3 months ago

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Embarrassing... I have been trying this for a long time, never was able to open the menu. But I mean, it was still hard to open it, as you can see. Although my issue is fixed, I think it's worth a thought on it.

Thank you very much!

KieronQuinn commented 3 months ago

It's been raised a few times, there isn't really an ideal possible solution - in an ideal world, the long click listener would work on all the widgets, but it gets overridden by some widgets and I'm not sure why. I'll take another look into it.

MRDGH2821 commented 2 months ago

I'm using Nova launcher in which I enabled smartspacer. And I'm unable to resize nor remove the google calendar widget. I can remove/resize others just fine, but Gcal, no matter wherever I long press, options don't popup

KieronQuinn commented 2 months ago

1.7.5 improves on this, Google Calendar widget seems pretty reliable to be long pressed now.