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Please update here if you find any good alternative? I'm stuck in the same place

by franciscop 9mo ago

jayknight 9mo ago
Lawnchair has been good enough for me, get a recent development build, they don't release very often.
- colordrops 9mo ago
  Lawnchair is the best open source launcher IMHO. It's feature reach but it does have one problem: the defaults are the opposite of sane lol.
  - E39M5S62 9mo ago
    I just switched to Lawnchair - took me quite a while to replicate the minimal look/feel I had with Nova. Thanks for recommending it!
troyvit 9mo ago
I've been having fun with Kvaesitso after it was recommended here. There are some things I'd change, but it's nice. https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso
- jemmyw 9mo ago
  I'm trying that one too. I did not like Octopi or KISS. Kvaesitso looks nice, I like the drawer and the drawer widgets are kind of cool too. The annoying thing that might drive me away is that you cannot set the order of favourites and the order changes depending on what you last used. Changing the order of something has to be very thoughtful or it quickly becomes frustrating - and with the favourites its not obvious that should be like a "recently used" list.
  - jemmyw 9mo ago
    Kvaesitso is open source, so since writing this I downloaded it, removed the dynamic ordering and updated it on my phone.
    - troyvit 9mo ago
      Holy crap nice! Well done!
JoshTriplett 9mo ago
I highly recommend Octopi launcher. Simple, does exactly what it should. Works great on foldables, as well.
Semaphor 9mo ago
I’ll be trying out Hyperion now as default launcher, list of stuff I checked quickly: Kvaesitso (FLOSS) and AIO: Different style of launcher that I don’t want, so out. Action: Felt weird to use, didn’t find a setting for auto search in app drawer Smart launcher: The most expensive one at 25€, and no proper app drawer search either. Lawnchair (FLOSS): Annoying animations, widgets don’t work properly (many widgets require Yx2 sizing that should work as Yx1) Octopi: Slightly better widgets than lawnchair, but still sizing issues. Without that I’d probably have gone with it first. Hyperion: This is what I’ll be testing for now. The only Nova feature I’m missing is showing recently installed apps in the drawer, but that’s extremely minor. Apparently support is bad and updates rare, but neither is an issue for me.

Please update here if you find any good alternative? I'm stuck in the same place

jayknight 9mo ago

Lawnchair has been good enough for me, get a recent development build, they don't release very often.

colordrops 9mo ago
Lawnchair is the best open source launcher IMHO. It's feature reach but it does have one problem: the defaults are the opposite of sane lol.
- E39M5S62 9mo ago
  I just switched to Lawnchair - took me quite a while to replicate the minimal look/feel I had with Nova. Thanks for recommending it!

troyvit 9mo ago

I've been having fun with Kvaesitso after it was recommended here. There are some things I'd change, but it's nice. https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso https://github.com/MM2-0/Kvaesitso

jemmyw 9mo ago
I'm trying that one too. I did not like Octopi or KISS. Kvaesitso looks nice, I like the drawer and the drawer widgets are kind of cool too. The annoying thing that might drive me away is that you cannot set the order of favourites and the order changes depending on what you last used. Changing the order of something has to be very thoughtful or it quickly becomes frustrating - and with the favourites its not obvious that should be like a "recently used" list.
- jemmyw 9mo ago
  Kvaesitso is open source, so since writing this I downloaded it, removed the dynamic ordering and updated it on my phone.
  - troyvit 9mo ago
    Holy crap nice! Well done!

JoshTriplett 9mo ago

I highly recommend Octopi launcher. Simple, does exactly what it should. Works great on foldables, as well.

Semaphor 9mo ago

I’ll be trying out Hyperion now as default launcher, list of stuff I checked quickly: Kvaesitso (FLOSS) and AIO: Different style of launcher that I don’t want, so out. Action: Felt weird to use, didn’t find a setting for auto search in app drawer Smart launcher: The most expensive one at 25€, and no proper app drawer search either. Lawnchair (FLOSS): Annoying animations, widgets don’t work properly (many widgets require Yx2 sizing that should work as Yx1) Octopi: Slightly better widgets than lawnchair, but still sizing issues. Without that I’d probably have gone with it first. Hyperion: This is what I’ll be testing for now. The only Nova feature I’m missing is showing recently installed apps in the drawer, but that’s extremely minor. Apparently support is bad and updates rare, but neither is an issue for me.