Kvaesitso Settings (Shortcut or) Openner - Release Notes

Version: 1.0.0 (1) stable
Date: 2026-04-29
package: de.mm20.anatolia.universish.kvaesitso.settings.opener

Changes:

• Uses an explicit target to open the Kvaesitso settings screen directly.
• Target package: de.mm20.launcher2.release
• Icon set applied.

Compatibility Note:

• Developed and tested only with Kvaesitso 1.40.1-fdroid (2026041400).
• Behavior on non-F-Droid builds or different package names has not been verified.

• Fix grid

• Add the option to add more than one widget screen (thanks to @fmontesino)
  • Go to settings > gestures to assign additional widget screens to gestures
• Remove accessibility service requirement for notification and quick settings gestures (thanks to @Aryan0577)
• New default font: Google Sans
• Add support for non-Gregorian calendars (as default or as secondary calendar)

• Fix bottom sheet related issues
• Fix custom intent quick actions not passing the correct data

• Crash fix
• Fix tags not showing in app widget (thanks to @nemkimo)

• Fix crashes
• Restore old favorites widget behavior to hide duplicate apps from dock

• Added an option to hide the app grid when the search field is empty
• Added a new language and region settings screen
  • There are now global settings for measurement system and time format
  • Added a UK measurement system option which uses °C, mm, and miles
• Added transliteration support for non-latin alphabets (Android 10+)
  • Kvaesitso now transliterates all search queries, app names, and shortcut names into latin before matching
  • If you are using a language that does not use the latin alphabet, you can now use both the latin alphabet and your native script
    to search for apps and shortcuts
  • This behavior can be customized or turned off on the new language and region screen
• Improved favorites widget (thanks to @rac146):
  • The widget has been renamed to "apps"
  • There are now two options: show favorites (like before) or show items from selected tags

• Bring back the "fill height" option for the clock widget while "widgets on home screen" is enabled
• Add an setting to increase the number rows on home screen (thanks to @and1mon)
• Unit converter improvements:
  • Added support for units of volume
  • The parsing is now more lenient, spaces are now optional and every combination of > and - is not a valid operator symbol
  • unit symbols may now contain spaces, some existing unit symbols have been renamed (for example sqft -> sq ft; lb. -> lb)
• Added more configuration options to custom intent quick actions
• Bugfixes:
  • fix tap interaction with live wallpapers
  • fix time parsing when time format is set to 12-hour clock
  • fix Wikipedia search
  • fix Samsung widgets not working (thanks to @leekleak)

• Rewrite of the base layout with the following improvements:
  • More flexible gesture options: the gestures for search and widgets can now be configured freely
  • All gestures are now handled the same way, so secondary gestures (screen off, notifications, launch app, etc) should feel more natural now
  • The "hidden" search bar style is now actually hidden and no longer takes space on screen
  • Added support for predictive back animations
• More theming options
  • we already had color schemes, but now there are also shape schemes, typography schemes and transparency schemes to give more control over the look and feel of the launcher
  • Important: the theme file format has been changed. For now, backward compatibility has been maintained, so you can still import the old format, but this might change in the future. If you have published a theme somewhere, you are adviced you to re-export it and update it for the new format
  • Added a new Material 3 high contrast theme
  • The card border option has been removed
• The progress bar in the music widget is no longer interactive by default. An option has been added to restore the old behavior.
• Added an analog clock variant that has tick marks (thanks to @shtrophic )
• Bug fixes

• Fix: consider tasks that don't have due time specified to be due to the end of day

• Add Tasks integration to search and display tasks from the Tasks.org app
  • The Tasks plugin is now deprecated
• Add Breezy Weather integration to use Breezy Weather as a weather provider
  • The Breezy Weather plugin is now deprecated

• Restore OWM and MET.no weather providers which have been disabled by accident

• Crash fixes
• Fix weather not updating
• Migrate Nextcloud login to use standard browser; should fix WebAuthn issues
• Add support for contact plugins

• Fix missing phone numbers in contact results

• Fix outlined clock style

• Improve OSM search performance (thanks to @leekleak) and results (thanks to @shtrophic)
• Add preference to clock widget to choose between 12h and 24h format (thanks to @NinjaFB for the 24 hour binary clock)
• Add option to call contacts directly, skipping the dialer screen (thanks to @shtrophic)
• Add option to show apps in a list instead of a grid (thanks to @KorigamiK)
• Remove Google Drive support
  • Due to restrictions in the Google Drive API, only 100 users could use this integration. A security assessment would be needed to restore the API for all users
  • If you still want to use Google Drive search, you can use the Google Apps plugin, but you need to build it yourself, to circumvent the 100 user limit.
• Bug fixes and other improvements

• Fix filters not working
• Fix pinning apps to favorites in secondary user profiles
• Fix some potential crashes

(Same version as last week, re-release because I forgot to push some changes so the F-Droid main repo wouldn't update)

• Improved search result ranking: the order of the search results is now more relevant to the search query
  • The option to sort search results alphabetically has been removed
• Custom icons for tags: you can now use any emoji or icon from an icon pack as tag icon
• Compact tags: pinned tags can now be displayed in a more compact way.
• You can now long-press tags to edit them

• Fix build error
• No other changes since version 1.33.0, see https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso/releases/tag/v1.33.0 for the full changelog.

• Added support for calendar plugins
• Added a preference to exclude calendar lists from search
• Restored the tab based layout for profiles
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Added support for private spaces (Android 15+)
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

• Bring back OpenWeatherMap and MET Norway weather providers

v1.31.0 Changelog

• Added support for places search plugins (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
  • This includes support for public transport data. Plugins can provide departure times for places, so with the right plugin, you can now look up departure times without ever leaving the launcher (new plugins coming soon).
• Apps can now be hidden from the app drawer without being removed from search results:
  • The hide/unhide options have been moved to the "customize" menu
  • For apps, there are now three visibility levels: "app drawer & search results", "search results only", and "hidden".
• The same applies to calendar events and the calendar widget
• Redesigned search results:
  • Initially, only the first 5 results are shown for each category. The remaining results can be revealed by clicking on a button.
  • Reduced clutter
• Bug fixes

• Added support for places search plugins (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
  • This includes support for public transport data. Plugins can provide departure times for places, so with the right plugin, you can now look up departure times without ever leaving the launcher (new plugins coming soon).
• Apps can now be hidden from the app drawer without being removed from search results:
  • The hide/unhide options have been moved to the "customize" menu
  • For apps, there are now three visibility levels: "app drawer & search results", "search results only", and "hidden".
  • The same applies to calendar events and the calendar widget
• Redesigned search results:
  • Initially, only the first 5 results are shown for each category. The remaining results can be revealed by clicking on a button.
  • Reduced clutter
• Bug fixes

• Fix hidden items appearing in frequently used items
• Fix enter to launch sometimes not working

• Resolve an issue with Play Protect flagging the app as malware

• Bug fixes

Version 1.30.1

• Places search: allows you to search OpenStreetMap for places in the local area (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• Search filters:
  • temporary filters to quickly limit or extend the categories that should included
  • includes an "online results" filter: as long as this filter is turned turned off, only local results are shown and no network requests are made, to protect your privacy
  • you can customize the default filter in settings
• More clock widget customizations:
  • added 1 more clock style (7-segment, thanks to @strongville)
  • added Material You option to every clock style (thanks to @strongville)
  • added an option to show seconds to every clock style (thanks to @strongville)
  • added the ability to use custom widgets as clock
• Widget customizations
  • app widgets now respect the launcher's color scheme (if the widget supports it); this can be toggled per widget.
  • app widgets can now be resized horizontally
• ⚠️ Breaking: Removed HERE weather provider due to API / pricing changes. Please make sure to switch to a different provider after the update to continue receiving weather updates.

• Bug fixes

• ⚠️ Breaking: Backups that were created with an older version cannot fully be restored on this version
• ⚠️ Breaking: Weather provider settings are reset after the update
• Added support for plugins:
  • Plugins can add more weather providers and more file search providers (more plugin types will be added in the future)
  • There are two plugins available right now: OpenWeatherMap and OneDrive search
  • If you are a developer, and you want to create your own plugins, read the docs to get started
• The dock is now always shown at the bottom of the screen, regardless of clock position and clock widget layout
• Moved dock settings from clock widget to home screen settings
• Fix that some third party app widgets cannot be added
• (Android 12+) Added a preference to use Material You compat colors instead of system provided colors (thanks to @strongville)
• "Edit widgets" is now shown in overflow menu if button is disabled (thanks to @strongville)
• Bugfixes
• idk, it's been ages

• Clock widget can now be configured from home screen, like every other widget
• Added several new variants of the default watch face, including one that uses Material You colors
• Added preference to set clock widget vertical alignment
• Fix adding widgets on Android 14
• Other bug fixes and improvements

• Fix bottom sheet / popup related issues

• Custom color schemes v2:
  • you can now have multiple custom color schemes
  • it is now possible to import and export color schemes
  • dynamic colors ("Material You") can be used in custom color schemes
  • new color scheme editor
• Tags that start with an emoji will now use that emoji in place of the default tag icon
• Added web search quick action
  • This action starts a web search in your default search app (e.g. the Google app). This replaces the default Google search action in new installation, but it has to be enabled manually on existing installations
• Added support for Android 13's per-app language feature
• Bug fixes and other optimizations

• Hotfix release for 1.26.3

• Improve bidirectional scroll handling in pager layout
• Change themed icons scaling to match platform style (thanks to @jamal2362)
• Bug fixes

• Fix swipe gestures not working

• Fix crash

• Note linking: you can now link note widgets to files to keep their content in sync
• Added home button as gesture trigger
• Added support for dynamic clock icons in icon packs
• Bug fixes

• Bug fixes

Important note:

My F-Droid repository has moved. If you are a user of my F-Droid repository (https://github.com/MM2-0/fdroid / https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MM2-0/fdroid/main/fdroid/repo/), please make sure to update the URL to https://fdroid.mm20.de/repo. The old repo will soon be discontinued.

(No action is required if you retrieve the app through Github, or the IzzyOnDroid or F-Droid main repository.)

• Added note widget
  • a widget that holds a simple text note
  • supports basic markdown
  • notes can be exported as markdown file
• The card background can now be hidden for app widgets
• Added a preference to hide the "hidden items" button from the search bar
• Bugfixes and optimizations

• Bugfixes and optimizations

• Fix a crash when clicking configure widget in the app widget config panel

• Redesigned widget picker
• Added support for work profile widgets
• Restructured settings
• Widgets settings are now configured and stored per widget (not globally, as before). You may need to reapply them after the upgrade: press edit widgets and select the tune icon on the widget
• Added an option to remove the padding around app widgets
• You can now manually select which apps should appear in the music widget
• The icon picker has been improved: it now longer shows duplicate icons and for icon packs that support themed icons, both the themed and the unthemed variant are now included
• Bugfixes
• Disabled OneDrive integration (it was broken anyway and is likely to be removed in the future)

• Fix favorites unintentionally disappearing from favorites widget
• Fix crash

• Added launch app gesture actions
• Added an option to rank search results by their usage (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• Algorithm to rank "frequently used" items has been changed to reflect which apps have been used recently (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• The date part in the clock widget can once again be disabled
• If the favorite widget is immediately below the clock widget and the clock widget is set to show the first line of favorites, that first line will no longer be shown in the favorites widget
• Pinned tags can now be toggled to be displayed in one or multiple lines
• The custom icon picker now has an icon pack filter
• Breaking: themed icon pack handling has been changed:
  • Themed icon providers (Kvaesitso Icons and Lawnicons) are now treated like normal icon packs and can be enabled at settings > appearance > icon pack
  • The "Themed icon" preference now only affects native themed icons
• Bugfixes

As you might already know, we have a Telegram group for this launcher. Someone has brought up the idea to create a Matrix room as well. I'd like to know if more people are interested in this, so I created a poll. I would appreciate it if you could take a second of your time to answer it. (Regardless of the result, the Telegram group will continue to exists and I would try to setup a bridge between Telegram and Matrix).

(Hotfix for 1.22.0, fixes search result order and restores the old B/W color scheme; hotfix for 1.22.1, fixes duplicate search results and launch on enter not working in pager layout)

• Themed icons compat: The launcher now supports native themed app icons on all Android versions
• Added support for themed icon packs
• Added themed launcher icon (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• The clock widget can now show the favorites component and one additional component at the same time (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• Redesigned weather widget (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• Redesigned music widget
• Added an option to launch the first search result with the keyboard's enter key (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• Added an option to lock the launcher's orientation to portrait mode (thanks to @Sir-Photch)
• Updated Outfit font; no more missing glyphs in Polish, Czech, Romanian, Turkish, and several other languages
• Bugfixes

Version 1.22.1

Version 1.22.0

• Fix touch events no longer being dispatched to live wallpapers
• Fix potential crash
• Updated translations

• Added an option to disable the search bar scrolling out of view
• Bug fixes

• Advanced layout options: you can now configure the search bar position, the arrangement of search results and the gesture to open the search independently
• Gestures: added configurable gestures including double tap to sleep[^1]
• Added a hardcoded list of music players (namely, Tidal, Bandcamp, Qobuz and Plexamp) that were formerly not recognized as "music apps" and required the "Restrict to music apps" setting to be disabled in order to work with the music widget. Let me know if you use any other music apps that are not properly recognized, I will add them to the list.
• Bug fixes

[^1] Double tap to sleeps is only available on Android 9+

• Added a new settings screen to manage tags: Settings > Search > Tags
  • On this screen, you can create new tags, quickly assign multiple apps to a tag, rename tags, delete tags, and duplicate tags

• Web search shortcuts have been replaced with quick actions:
  • quick actions are shown below the search bar and are shortcuts that take your search term and do something with it
  • type a phone number to call somebody, an email address to write an email or "10 min" to start a 10 minute timer
  • you can also add you own actions to search on websites or in apps [^1] or to launch custom Android intents.
  • Existing web search shortcuts will be migrated automatically
• Minor improvements
• Bugfixes

[^1] Searching in apps is an experimental feature because it doesn't work reliably (or at all) in some apps. I'm still debating whether to keep this feature or not. Feedback/opinions on this are welcome.

Add advanced web search action options

• Fix a crash on Android 8.0
• Updated translations

• We now have a website with a user guide!
  • relevant user guide pages are linked in launcher settings
• New default typeface (Poppins has been replaced with Outfit)
• Added a dark variant to search bar and clock widget. Search bar, clock widget and system bars will now automatically turn dark when you use a bright wallpaper. You can also enable the dark variant for each of these components individually
• Added Pebble icon shape
• Added 1 new clock style
• Improved app search matching; diacritics will now be ignored
• Keyboard will now close when scrolling the search result list
• Added missing surface tint color to advanced custom color scheme
• Bugfixes and minor improvements

• tags are a new way to organize your apps
  • you can assign as many tags as you want to apps (and other search results)
  • tags are used as keywords in the search, making it easier to find items that have tags assigned
  • tags can also be pinned to the favorites section for even faster access
• favorites have been improved
  • it's now configurable if and how many frequently used items are shown in the favorites section
  • items can be grouped using tags
  • the 'edit favorites' sheet has been redesigned
  • it's now possible to create shortcuts from the launcher (previously shortcuts could only be created from within apps and some app shortcuts were unavailable because of this)
• the 'edit widgets' button can now be hidden
• there are now different options for query encoding for websearch shortcuts
• probably bugfixes and other stuff, I forgor 💀

• Custom labels: app names can now be customized
• Personal apps and work profile apps are now separated in the app grid
• [WIP] Dutch translation (thanks to @bartlibert )
• Bugfixes and minor improvements™

• Kvæsitso can now be set as assistant app
• grid labels can now be hidden
• added an option to make the clock widget not fill the entire screen height
• added teardrop icon shape
• fix app incorrect app widget sizing
• bugfixes and other minor improvements

Furthermore, there is good news if you have previously had issues connecting your Google account: the app now no longer appears as "unverified" and the 100 user cap has been lifted. Google signin should now work again for all users.

• Bugfixes and minor improvements

• App grid and search results are now laid out lazily to reduce performance issues
• Bugfixes and minor improvements

Version 1.14.4

Version 1.14.3

Version 1.14.2

• Optimize APK size
• Bugfixes and minor improvements

• Custom icons: icons can now be customized individually
• Force themed icons: there is now an option to apply the application's color scheme to all icons, including unsupported ones. While it is generally not recommended to enable this option (some icons might become illegible) this can be useful if you use a monochrome icon pack
• Added Czech translation (thanks to @Fjuro!)
• Bugfixes and minor improvements

• Crash fix

• Add reversed pager layout
• Add option to use the system default headline font
• Add option to disable the blur effect on Android 12+
• Bugfixes and minor improvements

• Backup & restore
• The hidden results panel now only shows results that match the current search query. The button at the end of the search results will now only be visible if there are any hidden results for the current query.
• Card corner shape can now be set to cut or rounded
• Added Romanian translations (thanks to @stefanalexandru92 )
• Updated French translations (thanks to @kernoeb )
• Bug fixes and other improvements

• Bring back the hidden items modal sheet (it's now located at the end of the search results)
• Fix a crash

• New app icon (thanks to @EliotAku)
• Added swipe down gesture to open notifications shade (only in pager layout)
• The calendar widget will now always show the next event
• Remove list item swipe actions
• Hidden items have been moved, they can now be accessed under Settings > Search > Hidden search results or using the shortcut at the end of the search results
• Added Polish translation (thanks to @Zekiu)
• Bugfixes and other improvements

• Fix a weird bug that the clock widget sometimes had the wrong color
• Minor optimizations

• There is now an alternative layout option (search bar at the bottom, reversed search results order, swipe left to open search)
• Bug fixes, probably

• Material You Compat: all Android versions from 8.1 - 11 will now use a color scheme based on the device's wallpaper, similar to how it has already been done on Android 12
• Custom color scheme: You can now customize the launcher's color scheme to your liking
• The grid icon size is now customizable
• The currency converter can now be disabled
• Bug fixes

• Updated translations
• Fix widgets not updating (#55)

• Added favorites widget
• The clock widget can now optionally display the first row of favorites instead of the current date
• Added (partial) Portuguese (Brazil) translations, thanks to @jontaix
• Bug fixes

• Crash fix

• Added search for App shortcuts
• New crash reporter UI
• Fixed splash screens on Android 12
• Added Italian translations (thanks to @glemco!)
• Added Swedish translations (thanks to @zackcatdisc!)
• Added (partial) Spanish translations (thanks to @Relwi!)

• The clock widget will show different information depending on what might be useful at the moment
• The process of adding web searches has been simplified: there is now an import button that let's you specify a URL (for example: github.com) which will then be used to auto-fill all the required fields
  • This works by using the OpenSearch standard (the standard that is used by web browsers to automatically add web search engines to the browser's search bar). Sadly it is not as widely supported as I was hoping so you may still need to manually enter the required data for some search engines.
• The default color scheme for pre-Android-12 has been changed
• App search now supports Pinyin (Latin transliteration of Chinese characters)
• Contact search now takes the phonetic name field into account
• Added Chinese translations, thanks to @labrusca
• Added (partial) Russian translations, thanks to @sireuz1
• Bugfixes

• Fix a crash on Android 8-10

• Rebuilt search UI
• Application search is now doing fuzzy-matching, making it more tolerant to typos
• Added an option to automatically launch the keyboard when opening the search
• Added options to hide system bars
• Added two new clock styles: an analog clock and an empty clock style (if you want to hide the clock altogether)
• New widget picker UI. Also, the widget picker now asks for the required permission so this should fix the issue that the launcher sometimes crashed when picking specific widgets and the issue that some widgets were non-functional
• Added French translations (thanks to @BrightDV )
  • Also there is now a Weblate instance for this project, so if you are interested in adding support for your language, read this

• Fix #22
• Fix #18
• Nextcloud files will now be opened in the Nextcloud app if installed (#20)

• Fix #16
• Fix #17

• Fixed a bug (favorites can now be disabled again)

• Min SDK version is now 26 (Android 8.0 Oreo)
• Settings have been rewritten from scratch
• The settings storage backend has been changed (from SharedPreferences to AndroidX datastore). Some user settings will get lost so please check your settings after the update. The most important things (favorites, weather data, widgets, websearches) are safe however.
• Better permission handling: No more arbitrary permission requests on first start; instead, a banner is shown whenever a functionality is unavailable due to missing permissions
• New customization options for the clock widgets (more clock styles will be added in the future)
• The music widget can now optionally display media sessions from all apps instead of only from music apps
• The Wikipedia URL can now be changed; this is useful if you want to use Wikipedia in a different language
• Lots of internal changes / reorganization of the source code
• Bug fixes

• Minor design changes
• Unit converter now supports units of temperature (°C, °F, K)
• Grid size is now customizable
• Bug fixes

• Reduced pull down gesture distance
• Bug fixes

• Critical bug fix

Don't use this build, it's bugged.

• On Android 12, the app now uses the system color scheme ("Material You")
• Themed icons
• Bug fixes

Version 1.1.0

• Added BrightSky (Deutscher Wetterdienst) weather provider
• Bug fix: local files can't be pinned to favorites on Android R+
• Min SDK version is now 24 (Android 7.0)

• First public release