Music Apps should not shift the favorites list down

Hello,

I absolutely love Niagara, it’s such a breath of fresh air! I have one challenge with it though: when I connect a bluetooth device, all of my favorite shortcuts are moved. Here’s a video demonstrating what I mean.

Longer explanation of the behavior and potential fixes. First, here is my default homescreen:

When the Media widget turns on, it shifts the clock up and appears above my favorite apps. This is great because all of my shortcuts are in the same position I expect them to be, and the new widget is visible and easily accessible in the middle of my screen. Here’s what that looks like:

When a bluetooth device is connected and Music Apps are shown however, instead of shifting the clock up like the Music Widget, it instead shifts all of my favorites down:

Now none of my shortcuts are where I expect them to be and I have to scroll every time I get to the home screen to get to my most used apps which are at the bottom, closest to my thumb.

I feel it’s important to have the homescreen be consistent and predictable, and this breaks that convention. There is another suggestion to show Music apps below favorites. This is a good potential solution. I'd still have to scroll to get to the music apps, but it's more likely that I'll just have to scroll once to open one of them, and from then on I'll use the Media Widget to control it.

Another option would be to have the Music Apps follow the same behavior as the Media Widget: display beneath the calendar/clock widget and shift that up, rather than shifting your favorites down.

Thanks for considering, and keep up the incredible work!

Category
Productivity

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In Review

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Feature Request

Date

6 months ago

Author

Jonathan Sullivan

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