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it was bothering me for at least two weeks now with "nova launcher can't open network connection". today it finally presented this shitty ad dialog with missing reject all option where you can either accept all, or dive into few dozens of separate section, each of them containing few dozens sliders, all of them enabled by default.

let this be warning to others and you can deal with it before it surprises you when you are somewhere outside.

what privacy concious launchers do you people use? i have tried kiss launcher, but that doesn't seem to be for me.

i want classic launcher where i have icons on desktop where i put them and i can manipulate them blindfolded, not something that is trying to reinvent the wheel.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Something that annoys me immensely is how 99% of the launchers on f-droid are "type on the search bar to find the fucking app"

Personally, I use Fossify Launcher, which is "default android launcher, no bullshit"

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

that is what i am currently trying, seems to be working reasonably well and i swear it is faster than nova was.

there are some minor annoyances that are not really functional problem but will piss me off for some time (the icons of apps grouped into folder are far smaller than they could have been) and there is one big wtf moment, which is that screens do not wrap, so there is no left screen from the home one, resulting in number of screens being reachable of one slide cut to 50%, which is just... why?

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I mean honestly that's one of the things I really like about these type of ecosystems is that I can just search for an app rather than scrolling through my hundred 150 whatever number of apps I have installed at this point.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 0 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

that is why people have icons on the desktop. you do you, but i for one don't want to type the name of the app i am using on the daily basis instead of it being one click.

[–] titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I personally hate icons on my desktop. Why close the app im using just to open another?

[–] 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Why close the app im using just to open another?

because you can't use two of them at the same time? what does that have to do with method of launching that another app and comparing two clicks/gestures that can be done one handed, vs typing into some search box, which is a lot more complicated and longer operation?