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FOSS launcher options? (lemm.ee)
submitted 9 months ago by nerdschleife@lemm.ee to c/android@lemmy.ml
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I really like the simple, stock - ish layout on my home screen, which rules out a few popular suggestions like Niagara.

  • I liked Lawnchair, but development is dead. Even the new alpha hasn't been updated in a year or more, and is missing features.
  • Neo Launcher perhaps came close to being the most ideal, but it is buggy as hell and also hasn't been updated in a year
  • Nova is what I'm using now, but I hate that it does not remember the drawer groups for each app once they're reinstalled. I work as an app tester and having to sort work apps manually every time drives me up the wall

Does anyone here have any suggestions?

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[โ€“] theory@feddit.uk 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Kvasaeito

[โ€“] FrameXX@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No one is able to write the name right ๐Ÿ˜…. It's Kvaesitso. I mean no bad. It's pretty uncommon name. It just makes me smile to see it written wrong more often than right.

[โ€“] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

I actually gave this a go (or 6, over the past year) but it was a bit too radical for my taste

[โ€“] BurnedDonutHole@lemmy.ml 9 points 9 months ago

  1. Pie Launcher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/de.markusfisch.android.pielauncher/

  2. Fast Draw https://www.f-droid.org/packages/peterfajdiga.fastdraw/

  3. Open Launcher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.benny.openlauncher/

  4. Discreet Launcher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetlauncher/

  5. mLauncher https://www.f-droid.org/packages/app.mlauncher/

[โ€“] notExactlyI20@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Using Lawnchair atm. It's okay-ish which is enough for me, but I really like Niagara, although the double-tap-to-lock feature behind a paywall was a huge dealbreaker.

[โ€“] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

feature behind a paywall was a huge dealbreaker

Devs got to eat. And, if I remember right, for less than price of a meal for something you use, probably multiple times a day.

[โ€“] darcmage@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I've been using neo launcher since nova was sold. What kind of bugs have you encountered?

[โ€“] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Every UI setup change needs a launcher restart to take effect

[โ€“] darcmage@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I think I've run into this bug a couple of times. For some reason, the grid can become unaligned and I'd have to restart the launcher from the advanced options to fix it. I wish development was faster but that's how open source goes sometimes.

[โ€“] imaradio@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

I have had the chance to use it on a few different devices and ROMs. Been with it since before name change.

Performance, especially bugginess is highly variable. I don't know if it's the phone, the ROM, other apps, settings or what. Sometimes it is smooth and you forget its there. other times it is crashing every 5 mins, sometimes without being fully recoverable. Like on a certain set up my widgets would disappear when it crashed and widgets aren't in the backup so you have to redo them from scratch.

If it doesn't work on you current device just don't give up on it and whenever you get a new one give it a spin again.

[โ€“] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm leaving myself hanging out, but I'm still using lawnchair because I like it! Perhaps worth using again?

[โ€“] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I really like having a plain home screen that I can put widgets onto, so that leaves Niagara out

[โ€“] rhythmisaprancer@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, I didn't know lawnchair was related to Niagara.

[โ€“] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Woops sorry I think I replied to the wrong comment. Lawnchair is pretty great, but I shifted to Neo where at least the community is a little active.

[โ€“] Thrickles@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've also been looking around but there are no good FOSS launchers currently.

[โ€“] Uluganda@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm using Trebuchet (default Lineage launcher) with Launcher30 Lposed module. It's simple, it's very stock, no nonsense, just launcher.

[โ€“] nerdschleife@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

This came installed with my rom too, but I really need the option to sort the app drawer into categories or folders

[โ€“] punseye@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

wow, thanks for this

[โ€“] marcell@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

there was a thread here with the same topic: https://lemmy.ml/post/4933449

my suggestion: KISS

[โ€“] imaradio@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Neolauncher FTW

https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

Do an image search for screenshots, the repo doesnt really do it justice.

On f droid.

[โ€“] ock88@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Simple Launcher - basic but gets stuff done

[โ€“] Tucumano88@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Well...if you want something that eat little ram and supports icon packs, Mini Desktop launcher