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Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by jemmyw »

jemmyw wrote: post #188
troyvit wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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…

Kvaesitso is open source, so since writing this I downloaded it, removed the dynamic ordering and updated it on my phone.

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by calderwoodra »

Semaphor wrote: post #99
anilakar wrote: post #97

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Yes, and it does exactly what a launcher should do. It is not designed to show a dozen widgets spread over five workspaces. Priced at 15 eurobucks (back in the day) it's the most expensive piece of Android software I have ever bought. I have felt no buyer's remorse whatsoever. Edit: looks like the perpetual license costs EUR 40 nowadays.

My screen is pretty simple, 5 folders with icons, 10 other icons, one calendar widget, one weather widget. It’s what a homescreeen should do for me. Because not everyone is you.

Afaik, Niagra has all of that.

My favorite aspect of it is that I can remove all text and see 95% of the wall paper at all times.

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by KetoManx64 »

Fej wrote: post #18

Do older versions of Nova have any security flaws which preclude using them? I've been using this app for ages and it's been essentially feature-complete for several years. A part of me wants to switch launchers for no other reason than "it is supported and not tracking me", but it is possible for software to be finished, and I believe Nova falls into that category. If there's no meaningful vulnerabilities in it, the…

Disable the network permission and you've got nothing to really worry about.

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by troyvit »

jemmyw wrote: post #191
jemmyw wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Kvaesitso is open source, so since writing this I downloaded it, removed the dynamic ordering and updated it on my phone.

Holy crap nice! Well done!

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by SeriousM »

breput wrote: post #63

I was a 10+ year long Nova Launcher user and knew this day was coming after the sale and layoffs[0][1]... This evening I at looked several replacement launchers, such as Lawnchair and even the stock Pixel launcher again, but Octopi Launcher[2] is the more modern, more refined Nova replacement that you are looking for. It was a very easy, natural transition process from Nova - all of the Nova features that I used were…

Octopi es an excellent replcement. Thnaks for your recommendation.

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by ssl-3 »

ssl-3 wrote: post #185
BoppreH wrote: post #132

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I managed to add a Shazam Now button using a Shazam widget , not a shortcut . Give it a try! I just installed Octopi on this thread's recommendation. Pretty good so far, and I'm happy to remove the useless Google search bar from the bottom of my Pixel (I use Kagi and Firefox, neither of which can be configured on that bar). Also satisfied how you can resize widgets to any size, regardless of what the widget asks for.

That's similar functionality, but it's not a Shazam Now shortcut. I really don't want any widgets -- at all, ever. And I need labels -- remembering arbitrary iconography is a silly task when phonetic written language exists. Just a shortcut is fine. Or at least: It had been fine for nearly a decade. This, right here: This is what I want, and what I was using with Nova Launcher until late last night. https://www.andro…

As an unfortunate reply to myself, I'd like to ask a question to nobody in particular: Do y'all not use shortcuts? I think that they are pretty neat, and we've had them on Android since around version 7.1.

And the reason I ask this is because when I Google up different combinations of nouns, verbs and word usements for my problem of Android shortcuts and Octipi Launcher, I fairly-consistently find my own recent comments on HN (above, in these threads; within the bounds of this posting) in the top 5 results.

And that tells me that I am not only preaching to the choir, but the choir only exists of one member. And that member is me.

So I guess I am thus preaching to myself.

Awesome!

And thus, perhaps I am much more of an outlier than I ever imagined.

So the question stands: Am I really looking in from the outside with my quest for Android shortcuts that we've had for almost a decade? Is this lack of functionality really a thing that others just simply don't notice in a modern Android ecosphere? Is it a forgotten relic of the past?

(Whatever the case, it presently doesn't work with Octopi Launcher -- and I'm going to keep using it anyway.)

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by anilakar »

Semaphor wrote: post #99
anilakar wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, and it does exactly what a launcher should do. It is not designed to show a dozen widgets spread over five workspaces. Priced at 15 eurobucks (back in the day) it's the most expensive piece of Android software I have ever bought. I have felt no buyer's remorse whatsoever. Edit: looks like the perpetual license costs EUR 40 nowadays.

My screen is pretty simple, 5 folders with icons, 10 other icons, one calendar widget, one weather widget. It’s what a homescreeen should do for me. Because not everyone is you.

If you look at your parents' phone, chances are that there are five or more almost empty pages with automatically added icons all over the place.

Re: Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking

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Post by Perun »

Perun wrote: post #115

Any other launcher that lets you hide a folder behind a single icon? so tapping it opens the first app in the folder, and swiping up opens a folder itself. Nova served me well for more than 10 years, and I built my flow around this one feature.

Octopi supports it. In settings you can set "open folders by swiping". You can't do it on folder by foldery basis like in Nova, but that's not an issue for me
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