Dismissing tiles on the home screen of a KA1

valhen · 09-28-2016, 08:53 AM

Question about a behavior I'm seeing,and I wonder if other people see this too...

As soon as I got my device, I get rid of a lot of the tiles on the Home screen (long press on the tile and then "Dismiss Tile") Particularly the tiles like the Recommended books, Top New Releases, etc. I kept the statistics tile and some of the other ones. Basically, I customized the home screen.

I usually keep wifi off and only turn it on about once a week to sync (mostly to get my books from my public library's Overdrive collection). Every time I sync my device the tiles come back and I have to remove them again.

Does anyone else see this behavior as well? Am I misunderstanding what "Dismiss Tile" should do?

frostschutz · 09-28-2016, 09:40 AM

sync makes book recommendations pop up again and has to be dismissed again.

if there is an option to turn that off... i don't know

davidfor · 09-28-2016, 10:18 AM

Dismissing a tile just pushes it off the home screen. The tiles get put on the screen in response to some event. So, syncing will probably return the recommendations and similar tiles to the home screen.

If you use calibre and my Kobo Utilities plugin, you can use function in it to dismiss the tiles. Plus, it can add a trigger to the database that tries to prevent them from displaying. It isn't perfect as the way some tiles are displayed seems to have changed.

09-28-2016, 08:53 AM	#1
valhen Member Posts: 18 Karma: 14642 Join Date: Sep 2016 Device: kobo aura one, sony prs-t2	Dismissing tiles on the home screen of a KA1 Question about a behavior I'm seeing,and I wonder if other people see this too... As soon as I got my device, I get rid of a lot of the tiles on the Home screen (long press on the tile and then "Dismiss Tile") Particularly the tiles like the Recommended books, Top New Releases, etc. I kept the statistics tile and some of the other ones. Basically, I customized the home screen. I usually keep wifi off and only turn it on about once a week to sync (mostly to get my books from my public library's Overdrive collection). Every time I sync my device the tiles come back and I have to remove them again. Does anyone else see this behavior as well? Am I misunderstanding what "Dismiss Tile" should do?

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09-28-2016, 09:40 AM	#2
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,279 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	sync makes book recommendations pop up again and has to be dismissed again. if there is an option to turn that off... i don't know

09-28-2016, 10:18 AM	#3
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,907 Karma: 47303748 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	Dismissing a tile just pushes it off the home screen. The tiles get put on the screen in response to some event. So, syncing will probably return the recommendations and similar tiles to the home screen. If you use calibre and my Kobo Utilities plugin, you can use function in it to dismiss the tiles. Plus, it can add a trigger to the database that tries to prevent them from displaying. It isn't perfect as the way some tiles are displayed seems to have changed.

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