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saltcured 5 days ago

Everyone has different needs, so all these recommendations without any explanation are frustrating.

My reason to use Nova before was:

- REMOVE search bar from home screen, unlike the Pixel launcher

- Have the usual, customizable row of quick launchers across the bottom

- Have basic app drawer and background apps gestures pull up from bottom

- Add a couple basic widgets like Calendar and clock to home screen, or other app shortcuts

- Minimal permissions, no ads, no network-based features

Based on this, I just started trying out Fossify Launcher Beta, installed from F-Droid. It seems OK so far. My only complaint is that there seem to be multiple gestures that open up a Launcher menu, and I wish this was limited to just long press on the home screen background.

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toast0 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Fossify Launcher looks to fit my needs, maybe. I can't see how to make the app list a button instead of having to drag up (I am anti-gesture. The only gesture I want to make in connection with a computer is obscene)

Also having some issues getting widgets on there... But Android is Android, so I'm sure it's not Fossify Launcher's fault, I had the widget I wanted and then I removed it cause I wanted a different size, and it won't add again. A restart will probably help. (Spoiler: it didn't)

Would also be nice if I could make widgets 2.5 columns wide. I like a 5 wide screen, but I want two widgets to share the screen width.

	▲	saltcured 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah I resisted gestures but gave up when I found that enabling legacy nav buttons seemed to make things unreliable for me. Maybe when I first switched to Nova? I also noticed that the widget editing is a bit clumsy with resizing on Fossify Launcher. It seems like there is some hidden state where long-press doesn't quite work the same way after some interaction. But I was able make progress after going through several other interactions like opening the menu via back gesture from home screen, locking and unlocking the screen, etc. I don't know if it is Android or the launcher itself that makes the widget sizing so annoying. It seems to have a different bounding box for the resizing tool than what is actually rendered, so I end up with way more dead space around the widgets than I wanted.

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izacus 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Lawnchair sounds like a good fit for you then.

	▲	saltcured 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Where do you install it from, and is it privacy focused? I saw a prerelease one on Play Store that said it would do extra feedback telemetry. I bailed at that point and didn't look further.