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Launch interruption and wait for selected apps

It can be useful to be interrupted for a short bit when launching apps like social media - one can habitually launch Twitter when bored, but a brief popup that asks “are you sure?” and makes the user wait can be enough to reconsider.

OneSec is a great example of an app that does this, but I think implementing this at a launcher level is the neatest way to do it - I’ve had other apps that try to inject themselves into the launch flow loose the link I was trying to open in Facebook, or just result in a clumsy string of rapid switching between windows. I would like the interrupt to happen when I open the app from the home screen, and it’s less important that this happens when I intentionally follow a link to Twitter from a different app - a launcher integration is the nicest way to implement that, and I think it would complement Niagara’s Digital Wellbeing Initiative nicely!

Requests similar to this one have previously been tracked on GitHub at

https://github.com/NiagaraLauncher/Niagara-Issues/issues/2986 and

https://github.com/NiagaraLauncher/Niagara-Issues/issues/3302

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  • Gurdarshan Singh

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    Apr 21, 2025

    Yup I use OneSec, and i really help me to avoid unintentional launch of distracting app. Sometimes I hope what if this feature is native to my fav (Niagara ofc) launcher, i would we more than happy 😁.