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toggle option for search feature in other apps.

Open Popolechien opened this issue 11 months ago • 18 comments

From a user: Samsung Tab S4(smt835) and A14 (sma145f/n).

Medical Wiki and Kiwix apps for Android, both have a feature which adds links to search within those apps when you select text in another app.

These links are something which I will never use...but they force themselves onto the shortcut popup. They also push "web search" (which I use daily) off of the popup and into the extended 3-dot menu.

It is annoying enough that I am about to delete both of your apps. Please add a toggle to disable this shortcut feature so I can re-install what are otherwise brilliant apps.

From my exploration into the matter, that context menu is all handled by the android system. So, the only control that can be applied is by adding/removing apps which utilise this feature...or potentially by adding a toggle to remove the feature's implementation from within the app. I havent looked into how much work adding a toggle would be...though it should be possible (in theory).

One other thing to consider is that the text used in the context menu links should be as short as possible to save space for other links on the menu. "search Kiwix" is relatively short. "Search medical wikipedia" though is about 3x as long as it should be. Shortening to "ask wikimed" and "ask kiwix" would be an improvement and should be incredibly easy to implement. Better yet... shorten to just "kiwix" and "wikimed".

Popolechien avatar Dec 10 '24 13:12 Popolechien