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[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
I haven't sifted thru the pages for this so I apologize if this has been asked.

I know it may be small for some but it's an annoyance with me....not sure why, but that given.....

Is there a way to like align the desktop icons within the square (+ signs) it's in, right now it's at the top of the square (+ signs), is there a way to center it between those plus signs? I am in 4x4 desktop on a boost mobile Samsung S3 SPH-L710 phone, just throwing that out there to replicate what I have set.

If there isn't, can this be an option or an added request? it's the only thing I find really annoying to use nova launcher so for now I'm using apex launcher, which I find glitchy at times and have to reboot to fix things......other than that nova launcher it's pretty well flawless.

I know some may feel this is petty, but it's really about preference, so while some may feel things are petty and ridiculous, but others may find it as annoyances so it's a relative thing really......in this case for me it's an annoyance.
[Nova Launcher] adamcooks:
That feature is ROM based, some call it full screen, some call it immersive mode
[Nova Launcher] Zekene:
I know, but i dont want all time immersive mode. Just in nova..

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[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Kevin won't do this... There's absolutely no point, when multiple mods and apps have been made that can do the exact same thing for root users.
[Nova Launcher] devilsdouble:
I have a query about Tesla Unread plugin. Today I switched from AquaMail to CloudMagic email app. With AquaMail I used to see the unread notification badges on the Aqua Mail icon, but it's not happening with CloudMagic. Any way to enable this? Can't find anything under Tesla Unread settings!

Thanks in advance.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Nothing can be done about it currently. Kevin would have to add support for that specific app.
[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
I guess no fix for my post then?
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
There's no fix, because it's not an actual issue or bug... I mean this in the most polite way possible, but it seems like more of a personal OCD issue for you. I'm the same way with RAM management, so I can definitely relate.
[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
I guess I saw it different. I see what your saying though.

Just that other launchers don't have the same alignment.....not sure what to call it if it's not an issue, so we'll just say glitch for wording purposes......but the other launchers I've used don't have the same alignment glitch that nova has, they all align in the middle of that square where as nova launcher aligns it to the top off the box. That's why I thought it may have been a setting or something the nova team knew about perhaps and were looking into it.

I guess if it's not considered a problem or glitch, I'm good with that, I'll just move on to another launcher.

Thanks for the reply and info.
[Nova Launcher] hawkwind212:
Hate to say it, but you have to use different launcher to do what you're asking. So far the only launchers I know of that can do what you want are spb, next 3d, and tsf. They are all expensive compare to nova, but they have free version you can try first.

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[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
I think we may be talking about different things, and I think what your meaning is I want like a specific placemtn anywhere on the screen sorta thing and I'm not really, so I'll try and explain it in a bit more detail.

When you drag an icon to the home screen, you see a screen full of what I call plus signs. These signify a what I call icon boxes, the plus signs are the corners of those boxes.

So with adw and apex both (and numerous others launchers I have tried), they all drop the icon in that box "centered", but with nova launcher the icon gets set to the top of that box, not the center, which results in off-centered icons and the alignment of things is slightly off such as trying to put 4x4 pics, or widgets, or 4x2 widgets on a screen, because it puts the icon to the top of said box, it then makes the entire homescreen look off centered because the pic is at the top or upper part of the box, not centered.

An example would be if you took a paper that had evenly placed squares then took a pic of adw, and apex, and placed it directly over the paper with squares, you would see the icons would be centered within those boxes.....now take the same pic of nova launcher icons, and place it on top of the adw and apex pics and you'll find that the nova launcher icons do not line up with the others, why? because they are not centered in the box, they are placed to the "top" of the box.

I have tried numerous launchers and played with the functionality of things, and nova launcher is the only one that has the center alignment/placement affect where it places the icons at the top of the icon box, not in the center like the other launchers.

I was just asking conformation if this was a issue or a glitch or perhaps it was meant to be that way. So as it was stated by jjhiza its not an issue, so I will take that as nova devs intended the icons to not be centered and sit at the top of the icon boxes.

I apologize for not being more specific in my asking this earlier.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
I think I see what you're talking about, and on second though, it might just be something that Kevin should look into... You're not using icon labels, are you? I ask, because, with the label on, the icons are in the proper position, but if the label is toggled off, the icons won't adjust accordingly, to center themselves.

It's actually really interesting, and I never noticed it, because I don't have icons on my homescreen. If you want to put this in the suggestion thread (in the OP), I'll give it some votes, just on general principle. :thumbup:
[Nova Launcher] kersh:
Then why on my phone only the home icons are resized when I change the percentage size and the ones in the drawer stays small?
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Are you using a large grid size in your drawer? I know for a fact that there's only one option to resize icons, and on all of my devices, drawer icons change in the same way as homescreen icons. I use the standard drawer grid size though.
[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
I am using names on most, but some I don't have the names, and you know what........I think I see the difference now and your question got me checking into why it was different between the 2 :).

From what I can tell, the grid I guess you'd call it (that area with the plus signs in it when dragging an icon to the homescreen), that grid as I call it, is higher set in nova launcher than in apex and adw. With adw and apex if you add an icon the plus signs are down lower, ie:you see them in the app drawer icon area at the bottom of the screen it shows it about 1/2 way up from the bottom of the actual screen in the app drawer area is where the first plus sign shows at.........but with nova launcher sets it above that slightly like at the very top of the bottom of the screen icons, so it is a different grid layout I guess you'd call it.....nova is set higher than adw or apex is.

I guess the best simplest way to explain it is the invisible line/grid/plus signs for nova stops JUST above the app drawer icon area, but with apex and adw the invisible line/grid/plus signs goes down below that to about 1/2 way between the bottom icon area where the app drawer icon is, and to the bottom of the phones screen. I hope that makes sense.

I know you can change the grid amount ie: the numbers of columns and rows, but I'm wondering, can the position of that grid be changed at all as to where the grid starts and stops on the phones screen. I'm guessing not and it's a built in to the launcher sorta thing, I just gotta ask though just in case I may have missed a setting somewhere. I know you can do this with other specific launchers as was mentioned, just wondered perhaps if there was a setting I was missing maybe other than what I have set already.

Sorry if it's confusing...it's just hard to explain it all without knowing the proper names of what things are and sometimes it's hard to explain things without showing it to someone :)

From what I can tell nova launcher's grid spacing I guess you'd call it, (from the bottom to the top) it starts at just above the lower app drawer icon area, and goes to the top of the screen just under the notification area......with adw and apex the grid starts a bit lower that that at the bottom area and is slightly lower at the notification area.

It would seem as if nova uses the screen area other than the app drawer icon area, where as adw maybe uses the entire screen, but I dunno really, just a guess on my part.

Never really could tell what or why the difference in the 2 until now, you kinda got me investigating it more as to the "why" thing....I've always been one to wonder why about a lot of stuff.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Changing that value would be very difficult, if not impossible. In the stock launcher, there are "buffer zone" values, that allow the grid offset to be changed, but I haven't looked into Nova specifically.

I only say that it may be "impossible" because I don't know how Nova will respond to being modified with apktool... It may, very well break the launcher completely. :-\
[Nova Launcher] kersh:
Uhm, after comparing, the icons are the same, the folder nova icon it is the one that it is smaller inside the drawer.
[Nova Launcher] sordna:
easyrider77, you really ought to post a screenshot, and draw some arrows or something to illustrate what you mean.

A picture is worth a thousand words.
[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
Yeah would have saved a lot of typing lol.

Ok here it is, with a crude mouseing arrow so don't laugh to hard heh.

This is Nova Launcher....

Notice the + signs are just above the app drawer icons at the bottom.

Here is Apex launcher

Notice how the + signs are now 1/2 way in between the drawer icon area at the bottom.

This is the only real difference can see in the 2 as to why things don't seem to line up exactly right with nova like they do with apex or adw

Of the launchers I have tried,.....not all, but a lot of them, they all have the same alignment as apex launcher.....nova launcher is the only one that has this affect. It also to looks as if the boxes are bigger from top to bottom, but vertically are the same in both launchers.

My guess would be that is why say two 4x2 icons (one on the top part of the screen, and one on the bottom part of the screen, look kinda odd in nova launcher as apposed to apex, because of the extra room at the bottom of the screen area where the + signs are, it lines the icons up differently.

I don't recall nova having this in earlier on version, IE: ics days....but that's been awhile back too.

I hope that people don't think I am knocking nova launcher, I am in no way trying to put down nova launcher, I think it is by far the best launcher out there, just with this it's hard to get things aligned just right without having the home screen pics look all lopsided of sorts. I also respect highly the devs works and efforts.

If I personally am thinking about buying a product I have to be the one satisfied with the results, so that's why I brought this up, thinking, as I said before....maybe I missed a setting or perhaps it was indeed something that got overlooked or could perhaps be fixed with ease or whatever....I wasn't trying in any way to cause problems or be a complainer....that wasn't what I set out to do at all.

I hope I didn't stir up any dust or ruffle anyones feathers.

Here are two more pics showing what I mean by it being off centered in nova and not in apex. Notice the top part of the icon has a small area, while underneath it there is a lot of space.....IE it's not centered, yet with apex it is centered, the top and bottom of the icon both have an equal amount of space....or at least it's VERY close to the same.

Same as above here we have Nova Launcher.

Notice the small space on top of the icon, and the large amount of space at the bottom of the icon, meaning the icon is not evenly distributed space, or not centered, it's pushed more up to the top of the box.

Now we have Apex launcher.

Now notice you see an evenly distributed amount of space....meaning the icon is centered not pushed to the top or upper part of the box.

Also notice I am using the name in both instances, so it's not a name off/on thing, it's an actual non-centered icon thing.

Just for the record I am using 4x4 homescreen grid, not the default 4x5....but this has the same affect in 4x5 as well. I have not tested above that, those are the only 2 I have tested.

I hope this better explains what I am seeing and what I am trying to express.
[Nova Launcher] sordna:
Have you changed your DPI setting by any chance?

On my nexus 4, the icons are aligned fine, and also the lower plus signs fall exactly on the line that divides the dock from the desktop. My desktop grid is 5 rows, 5 columns by the way.
[Nova Launcher] mlaws90:
I also use nova exclusively on all my devices and have nova prime. It would be nice to see a beta soon, or message from the Dev telling us if he is slowing his development of this app(busy with life) or development is done for now.

Fingers crossed on a new beta cycle. ☺
[Nova Launcher] resarfekim:
Recent Apps comes up when I wake with Home button

I apologize if this has been addressed before. I searched and couldn't find anything...

On my Note 2, when I wake up the phone with the Home button, the Recent Apps screen comes up.

I do not use a lock screen. I want the phone to wake up on the home screen (or, the screen that was open when screen turned off).

Is this possible?

Thanks!
[Nova Launcher] txx3:
Is Nova dead?
[Nova Launcher] mauam:
Go to nova settings-gestures & buttons-home button & choose whatever you want for the home button:)
[Nova Launcher] resarfekim:
Yeah, no matter what I pick for the home button, it still wakes up to Recent Apps.

But the home button action works properly when the phone is already awake.

I'm running Slimkat rom (android 4.42). It does the same behavior on stock.
[Nova Launcher] mauam:
I using CM11 & everything works fine, home button also:) I also disable the home button options, on system settings-buttons (CM system settings).
[Nova Launcher] resarfekim:
Ah, disabling the home key long-press in CM settings does the trick. And as I still like to use long-press to view recent apps, I just set that up in Nova settings. Done.

Thanks!!
[Nova Launcher] mauam:
Glad to hear that;)

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I hope not:)I want to see the "sort icons in drawer option" like on Apex:laugh::p:cool:
[Nova Launcher] oae08:
Is this discontinued? No update since November
[Nova Launcher] sordna:
So ? It's stable and works great with the latest version of android. Why should there be an update? Can't an app stay like it is for a few of months? I have other apps that had updates over a year apart! This is nothing to worry about :)
[Nova Launcher] oae08:
I know bro wasnt talking about stability, i mean there is always room for improvement, even small things may make a big difference.
[Nova Launcher] b1narydigit:
All good for me too. My desktop grid is 7 * 4. Is this something to do with the height main setting?

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Sorry, height *margin*
[Nova Launcher] easyrider77:
Haven't changed anything with dpi everything is stock set as far as dpi goes. I am however in 4x4 grid, so maybe that's why it does it not sure....I noticed others using 4x5 and 7x4 and such perhaps that's the difference. ...all I know is nova launcher gives me that large space of empty at the bottom of the icon and a small one at the top of the icon so it is off centered as compared to other launchers.

I had thought it was perhaps a rom I was using at the time, so I even changed to a stock rom, with no modifications at all in the rom......stock unrooted rom and nova launcher still has the same affect. Maybe it was designed that way.

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[Nova Launcher] mike2587:
Hey all, does someone have problems with Beautiful widgets app? I placed a 4x1 widget in the home, I resized it to fit in a row, but the top is cut off as you can see in this picture. To see the widget regularly I have to resize it to 2 rows...Is it normal? Does it depend on nova or beautiful widgets?
[Nova Launcher] mrdoug:
I know some widgets are cut off for me due to my screen resizing (I set mine to a 5x7 icon). If I go back to the normal width / length (4x4), it looks normal again. I personally want the extra icons, so I only use widgets that resize well.

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[Nova Launcher] mike2587:
But is it due to nova?

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[Nova Launcher] iamnotkurtcobain:
Still many bugs in Nova and no update since 3 months... Thats bad..

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[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
What bugs? In the last three months, you've posted here five times - three times, to ask for a new beta, once to ask for a scrolling effect, and once to complain about redraws. Know what I didn't see? Logs, screenshots, detailed explanations of your issues... THAT'S bad.

You may be having a different experience in your phone, but redraws and widget asset issues can be caused by firmware (ROM or kernel) issues as well. Personally, I haven't had any of the "issues" you've described, and with no details, Kevin couldn't provide a fix, even if he wanted to. And seriously, Kevin has been developing this launcher, without a break, for over two years now... I think he's earned some time away.
[Nova Launcher] ovyxy:
hey ..

Works very stable ...

I've always liked nova
[Nova Launcher] kaemon:
Does Nova support exist??

Hi all,

couldn't find any support mail in app settings, tried to send several times a support request to email showed in Play market but never got any reply...

So i found this topic by googling for some nova support.. maybe some Nova dev will finally reply?

I noticed that resized widget often* crash with a "widget has crashed,* tap to restart"* or a "problem loading widget"* message.

This problem only happens with resized widgets (ex: Google keep, pure gris calendar, or any widget that I resized ).

Why is that and how to fix this please?
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Do you have any of these Widget Async settings checked? They can be found in the Labs tab of Nova Settings - enter Nova Settings, and hold volume down rocker, and it will be enabled. That may provide a quick and easy fix for your problem.

If that doesn't work, provide us with some additional information - are you rooted, if so, which ROM and kernel do you use, and which device do you have?

Kevin rarely checks in here, and he may not check his email regularly, because he probably gets bombarded with them. Giving us this information could allow us to try to help, even though we're not Nova developers. :)
[Nova Launcher] vaeevictiss:
Any chance of adding the ability to hide the status bar just on the lock screen? The current setting hides it on everything but the lockscreen.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Kevin probably won't add this to Nova, since he already develops a lockscreen app (Widgetlocker) that has tons of features, including status bar hiding. It's a great app... You should check it out! :)
[Nova Launcher] iamtal:
Different grid size for landscape

Hello,

There are two things which I wonder if exist, and if yes, where can I find them.

A. Ability to set a different grid size for landscape mode

B. Display app labels in the apps drawer in landscape mode (currently all I see is app icons, while in portrait mode I have both icons and labels).

I will highly appreciate your help.

Tal.
[Nova Launcher] AllSeeyinEye:
Since the feature request website is really a mess, I guess I'll just post my request here.

I really dislike the way folders display apps right now. Not the theming, that's alright with me, but the grid. When adding a 3rd app to a folder containing 2 apps already, the 3rd one makes the folder scale from 2x1 to 2x2. I think it would be better if given the choice of showing 2x2 or, as I would like it, 3x1 (and 4x1 when with 4 apps in a folder), 5x1 and so on for setups with a larger grid size.

So my point is: I'd like to have folders use my grid width and not try and stay as square as possible :)
[Nova Launcher] SgrA:
Transparent Notification Bar Not Working

Hi,

I'm on Nova 2.3 beta, shadows disabled, still can't get transparent notification bar to work. I'm on CyanogenMod 11 nightlies.

Thanks
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
Are they official or unofficial nightlies, and does this problem exist for you on a stable version of the ROM? Nightly builds can have broken features and can even be wildly unstable, as developers try new things.
[Nova Launcher] SgrA:
I guess it's the nightlies, as it works on my Nexus 7(just checked).
[Nova Launcher] Naveenmalik39:
Please Add Disable tab in Drawer Options

Hi sir i like nova launcher very much if you can please make add support for disable tab in app drawer like holo luncher, many user like me rarely use tabs in app drawer please please sir make add support in upcoming update

thanks for nova luncher
[Nova Launcher] PunchUp:
I don't know how is it in holo launcher but you may try this. Go to Nova settings>drawer>small tabs.. Check that option and tell me if that helps your cause
[Nova Launcher] Naveenmalik39:
Sorry

thankyou very much sir, yeat that what i want, sorry before i post not check this option, again thanks for guide there have no doubt nova is best luncher.
[Nova Launcher] kaemon:
Hi,

interesting tip, didn't know about the lab features.

i checked now the "Widget Image Async General", and for the last few days, didn't have any more widget crash. Still waiting a few days to make sure it's ok now, but i think i can already say thanks Jihiza !

nb : i'm on Galasy S4 official 4.3 + rooted.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
No problem man, I'm happy to help! Honestly, I think the Labs menu should be enabled by default, since it has done useful options, that can solve common problems like this. Hopefully Kevin will consider making that change. :thumbup:
[Nova Launcher] paradoxiumwind:
Are there any plans to update TeslaNotifier? It only works for a couple select apps, with no ability to make custom selections for notifications, doesn't even work for Hangouts.

Is there an alternative that anyone can recommend for the time being?
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
TeslaUnread does support MissedIt! which can be found here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.igecelabs.android.MissedIt. The app was just updated the other day, and seems to have more features available than TeslaUnread. I'd suggest giving it a try.
[Nova Launcher] paradoxiumwind:
I'm really just looking for something that adds the small [number] things to icons on the launcher screens, like TeslaUnread does - is there nothing similar? I don't want a bloated full featured thing like that seems to be.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
I understand, but I don't think there's anything else similar, and even if there was, TeslaUnread doesn't support it/them currently. Outside of making your own unread count app, I don't think there's much more you can do. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. :(

*UCCW, Zooper, and DashClock all provide unread count options, and they're all fairly lightweight, but I'm not sure you want to go the widget route... It doesn't seem like you do.
[Nova Launcher] JRJ442:
I wouldn't really consider Missed It! bloated. Full featured yes. And well worth the money.
[Nova Launcher] jjhiza:
The funny thing is that TeslaUnread seems to still use the old (pre-kitkat) protocol for MMS and SMS. Apps like Sliding Messaging and EvolveSMS work fine with it, but Hangouts must be using a different protocol.

Despite the fact that I don't use Hangouts as my SMS app, I'm honestly surprised that Kevin didn't make changes to TeslaUnread, prior to releasing the Nova KitKat update...especially considering that Hangouts is now the default messaging app for 4.4.x. I'm sure he'll get to it though.
[Nova Launcher] Rob S.:
Try Notifyer Unread Count.