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TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lawn Chair looks ok, but unless they fix this issue I will not switch.

  github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair/…/2683

  Basically you can’t set the main “home page”, ie where you end up on home press. I like to have it set up so the home is in the middle and then you can swipe left to go to another screen(s), and swipe right to go to other screen(s).

  Forcing the home screen to be the first means you can only swipe right, and have to go through many useless screens to get to the one you want.

  Doubt they will fix it either, as it has been open since 2022. Without knowing their stack it sounds like a really simple fix, just storw which is the main screen. Normally it is [1], 2, 3, 4. But let the user choose to put it as [3] for example if they want.

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    and have to go through many useless screens to get to the one you want.

    Two things.

    Clean your shit up and prioritize. Everything I could ever dream of is on one screen.

    Second, it’s foss. Contribute.

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    • tuoret@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Classic “the product/UX doesn’t need fixing, you’re just using it wrong” mentality. Not exactly how you win users on your side.

      Second, it’s foss. Contribute.

      Agree on this point though

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    • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Or, hear me out, solve this trivial problem by reintroducing what has been a basic feature of launchers forever.

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      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Has it though? I can’t say I’ve ever seen it, and I go out of my way to look at settings for everything

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    • Tanoh@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I like having home on 3.

      Only a calendar widget on 2 (one swipe left), so you get a quick glance of upcoming events. Then two swipes left are various games. One swipe right are various overflow apps from the main screen.

      People use software differently, just because you don’t agree doesn’t mean it is wrong.

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      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Like I said, I understand it, but I’d deprioritize it

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    • cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      PR welcome. Either by you, or by paying a dev to do it.

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      • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What am PR

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  • sm1dger@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’ve switched, but this really is my one major gripe. Good to see others see it as a priority too, but if it’s been a conversation for 4 years then I’m not optimistic

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  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Without knowing their stack it sounds like a really simple fix, just storw which is the main screen.

    Soooo… if it’s simple… contribute then?

    I’ve learned an app’s stack for far more mundane things. If you want others to build something you want, it helps to build things other’s want. Sounds like there would be a lot of interest if you took this on.

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They recently started on wraparound homescreens (still a little buggy), so that might indicate they could soon add it. Still waiting on a way to remive widget paddings. In general lawnchair has so much more padding than nova, and not enough customizability to remove it.

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• Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lawn Chair is so good

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I just tried Lawn Chair. Started building my home screen by adding two games to a folder. It dropped the second game right on my home page as well as adding it to a folder. Then, when I tried to remove the duplicate, it crashed.

  I’m guessing this is not at all typical and this is a “me” problem, otherwise nobody would ever recommend it. :P

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• 0ops@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This might be an unpopular opinion, but I’ve liked lawnchair better than Nova since it was in a pre-release state years ago. I admit I haven’t used either in at least 5 years, probably longer, so this opinion might be grossly out of date, but when I last tried it I was 90% convinced that it was just the KitKat aosp launcher with a material skin. It just felt clunky. Lawnchair actually felt native to newer android versions while still having all the customizations I needed.

  Again, I haven’t used either launcher in forever, so take this whole thing with an agricultural block of salt

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  • Whostosay@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    HHHGHHHGGHHGHHHHMMMMM.

    HgMPH.

    (Cow noises for you city folk)

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• criticon@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Uff I installed it last week but I haven’t had the time to customize it and add all my shortcuts so I’m still using Nova. I’ll definitely need to change it tomorrow

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