smaller buttons for single-character Clipboard items

[sosasees]

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Feature description

my pinned clipboard looks like this:

a lot of its entries are only one character long, so the half‑a‑screen‑long buttons have a lot of empty space inside and make scrolling down take unnecessarily longer.

i would like buttons for short clipboard entries to be appropriately short, so i can see more of my Clipboard entries at once.

Why do you want this feature?

i would like buttons for short clipboard entries to be appropriately short, so i can see more of my Clipboard entries at once.

Additional information

maybe this could be done by replacing the Clipboard's two‑column grid with an HFlowContainer

※ i don't know Android Studio's name for HFlowContainer. that's how it's called in Godot Game Engine

[naveensingh]

I like it the way it is now and I don't see why this is needed, clipboards aren't really intended for single characters and we'll be adding support for emoticons.

Also, view size shouldn't be smaller than the minimum touch area and the view should be visible while rearranging clips using drag & drop (to be implemented) so I don't think it's a good idea to reduce the size.

Opinions are welcome.

[Aga-C]

I like it the way it is now and I don't see why this is needed, clipboards aren't really intended for single characters

People have different usages for things, sometimes not intended by developers, and the best way is to adapt to users. In Fossify Keyboard's saved items, I also have some short texts, and enforcing two-column view leaves unnecessary empty space. I even think that if someone has a long text, it should span on the whole available width.

Also, view size shouldn't be smaller than the minimum touch area and the view should be visible while rearranging clips using drag & drop (to be implemented)

We can add minimum width for the items and I don't think there will be a problem with drag & drop. Items will jump around a bit, but the problem can be minimized and made user-friendly by showing a placeholder in the drop target.

[naveensingh]

I also have some short texts, and enforcing two-column view leaves unnecessary empty space.

Do you have any examples?

I even think that if someone has a long text, it should span on the whole available width.

No, that will likely become a problem for someone else. There should be a minimum of two columns (common in keyboards).

Increasing the column count to 3 is another option (e.g. Samsung Keyboard) but I guess I’ll leave this up to implementation as long as it can be done in a way that maintains usability and doesn't look awkward.

[Aga-C]

Do you have any examples?

I keep there my logins and e-mails that are short enough to have three at once.

Also, there are two other things to consider:

• People may keep in the clipboard texts saved in alphabets other than Latin. A valid sentence in Chinese can take e.g. just three characters.
• Fossify Keyboard can also be used on tablets. Two columns look strange there.

[naveensingh]

People may keep in the clipboard texts saved in alphabets other than Latin. A valid sentence in Chinese can take e.g. just three characters.

Good point.

Fossify Keyboard can also be used on tablets. Two columns look strange there.

The number of columns should have been higher on larger screens, but these apps weren't really designed with tablets in mind (something else that needs work).