FOSS launcher options?

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?

Tucumano88,
@Tucumano88@lemmy.zip avatar

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

imaradio,

Neolauncher FTW

github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Launcher

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

On f droid.

ock88,

Simple Launcher - basic but gets stuff done

marcell,

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

my suggestion: KISS

notExactlyI20,

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.

FutileRecipe,

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.

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

nerdschleife,

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

rhythmisaprancer,
rhythmisaprancer avatar

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

nerdschleife,

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.

Uluganda,

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

nerdschleife,

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

punseye,

wow, thanks for this

BurnedDonutHole,
  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/
darcmage,

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

nerdschleife,

Every UI setup change needs a launcher restart to take effect

darcmage,

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.

imaradio,

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.

Thrickles,

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

mintycactus,

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    vvv,

    this is what I use. I’m over sorting, I just want to type in the name of the thing I want to launch

    hulemy,

    I used OLauncher for a while, which is really nice for this purpose. Just text based and has a quick search in the app drawer. Currently use Lunar Launcher because it looks nicer. Does miss a few features like hiding apps or renaming (which OLauncher does have). I have been thinking about forking it to add this

    theory,
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    Kvasaeito

    FrameXX,

    No one is able to write the name right 😅. 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.

    nerdschleife,

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

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