Neamar
Widgets and screen estate.
Something has changed that make widgets take up more space - wasting screen estate.
I know support for widgets is still WIP. I'm just reporting as it feels like a step back.
Before the update to 3.16.3 (F-Droid) the "Suntimes" widget on my Homescreen at the top was about half as tall.
(no screenshot of old version, sorry)
Now its height about doubled, including padding to other widgets, and I can't get it to span across the screen (left to right) without creating big holes of unused space between widgets.
The reason this concerns me is that below the widgets on my Homescreen is empty space wich I use for swipe gestures. Bulky widget sizes reduce or even fill this space, making swipe gestures difficult or impossible to perform while there is still plenty of potentially free space on the screen available.
Would be nice if height and width of widgets could be changed individually.
Cheers!
This is surely because of https://github.com/Neamar/KISS/issues/1763 and https://github.com/Neamar/KISS/pull/1766
regarding height: is it possible to reduce height of the widget any more? regarding width: the wrong size on screen was sent to widgets before 3.16.3 which resulted in strange layout. But this may also be the reasony why it spanned over whole sceen before.
Do you have the name of the app? Is source code for these widgets available anywhere so i can debug it?
Thanks for looking into it @marunjar
Height can be reduced, but not to the amount that was possible before.
If that's how it should work, well, kinda sad it got fixed. :p I would really like to be able to organize my homescreen the way I see fit. Especially without creating gaps between widgets that don't seem to serve any purpose.
The source code for Suntimes is available here: https://github.com/forrestguice/SuntimesWidget
@Misalf-git v3.16.4 brought back the possibility to resize all widgets (#1805) Can you please check if you can resize widgets to wanted size with this version?
@marunjar I'm already on v3.16.4 but unfortunately didn't notice any change in resize behavior after updating. NB, none of the widgets I'm using refused to resize entirely.