[feature] shortcuts

[jrpie]

Support for shortcuts
would be nice. These should be displayed in a separate list.
Pinned shortcuts should be shown in the same way as apps.

It should be possible to bind shortcuts to gestures.

(See also https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46796674/create-shortcut-on-home-screen-in-android-o )

[wassupluke]

Would this provide functionality to see icons/shortcuts made by using a browsers "Add to Home Screen" feature, or would that be a separate feature request? Asking because I like to keep icons/buttons to click for easy access to my most used sites (e.g., jumping straight to mypihole's admin page).

[jrpie]

Yes, that is what this feature is supposed to solve. (Shortcuts like those created by "add to home screen" are called pinned shortcuts by Android)

[jrpie]

I have not decided on the UI for this yet:

1. Treat pinned shortcuts just like apps. Adding them just adds them to the list of apps. The user can then bind this shortcut to a gesture in the same way as an app. This might be tedious, since in order to bind a shortcut only to a gesture, a user would have to:

• add the shortcut
• go to settings, pick an "app" for the gesture and search for the newly added shortcut in the list
• hide the shortcut

2. When a user wants to add a shortcut, ask whether to (a) add it to the app list or (b) bind it to a specific gesture. Here the initial setup it a lot cleaner, but it is not possible to move shortcuts to a different gesture later.

[BANOnotIT]

Can't you add it to the app list automatically but show a modal/view asking to chose gesture?

[jrpie]

That sound like a good solution 👍🏼 I could also add an entry "bind to gesture" to the context menu that opens the same dialog.