Kiss: Shortcuts issues

[licaon-kter]

Using QuickShortcut or Island to make one I get:

• Shortcut is not in used apps list on creation (not like installing a new app)
• Shortcut is not in all apps list
• Shortcut magically appears only on search
• Shortcut has only 2 options on long press: add to favs and delete
• Shortcut can't be removed from used apps (without adding it to favs anyway), only destroyed entirely

What I would like? Treat shortcuts just like apps.

[YoeriNijs]

Created an initial commit to overcome this ussue: https://github.com/Neamar/KISS/pull/680

[adbenitez]

I am having this same issue with the latest realease on f-droid, shorcuts added from ghost commander or firefox are only shown in search

[NwraliMedeu]

I’ve noticed that the initial commit for fixing this issue was closed due to nobody being able to test it at the time. I can test the commit on my Android 6.0 tablet and give feedback on the thread if somebody reopened it. I really like how lightweight this launcher is, but this issue doesn’t allow a user to go even lighter by comfortably using web-apps. It’s frustrating to always go through search, when you could just tap icons. So please, fix this issue.
Edit: Reworded.

[quite]

Though I read that testing of #680 on Oreo (8.0) was what was lacking, due to @Neamar not having such. I only have 7 and 9 (Marshmallow and Pie) currently (in the shape of LineageOS).

[AeliusSaionji]

Another issue I want to add to the pile:

Icon packs only apply over an icon for matching names, until support for manually selecting an app icon is implemented.

I tried to create a shortcut with the same name as an app, so the shortcut would get a specific icon.

Kiss refuses to add the shortcut, but it must exist somewhere because I get an error from kiss about this shortcut every time it restarts. I can do nothing to resolve it.

[licaon-kter]

@AeliusSaionji grab a log for the error

[ClockGen]

@Neamar Hello, I'm on oreo and I'm willing to compile and test #680, if it's still considered, and provide whatever is needed (logs, screenshots, etc). Related to #1339.

[Neamar]

Hello!

The issue was actually the opposite, you have to have a phone before Oreo to be able to test :)

Oreo+ shortcuts are widldly different, and the OS also drops support for "legacy" shortcuts: now, only the home app can access shortcuts for privacy reasons.

[Neamar]

I'm not a big fan of this issue, because it's talking about too many different things -- it's a bucket list of stuff disliked about shortcuts, but it contains too much stuff to actually have a proper conversation about them. I'm going to break it into smaller issues so that we can see what is useful for everyone and understand the needs better.

(for instance, I don't think shortcuts should be treated like apps -- they're not.)