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Sometimes I forget something was in my favorites and just use the scroll by habit, its just that big a non issue.
> Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers, Usage Data and IDs (package names) from installed apps.
It sends a unique device identifier, your IP address and your app usage to Firebase. I understand why the developer would want crash reports but he gathers a lot of data on users.
If you want to go further on minimal design check out Olauncher https://github.com/tanujnotes/Olauncher Available on both fdroid and play store
Unfortunately, this is not on F-Droid, and it does not appear to be open source.
Not everything needs to be OSS, it is OK for people to charge for software and make a living...
software example: Krita https://store.steampowered.com/app/280680/Krita/ source code under GPLv3 https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita
game example: Shapez https://store.steampowered.com/app/1318690/shapez/ source code under GPLv3 https://github.com/tobspr-games/shapez.io
https://help.niagaralauncher.app/article/27-privacy-policy > Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers, Usage Data and IDs (package names) from installed apps. It sends a unique device identifier, your IP address and your app usage to Firebase. I understand why the developer would want crash reports but he gathers a lot of data on users.
Just sent this threat to Peter :)
Unfortunately, this is not on F-Droid, and it does not appear to be open source.
Not everything needs to be OSS, it is OK for people to charge for software and make a living...
The only thing I miss still is not being able to open drawer by swiping up (though fastscroll on letters is good enough, but kinda sucks that it only handles latin letters there, cuz like 3rd of my apps are in Cyrillic and thus stuck at the first category).
UX on foldable device is unmatched, especially after it added support for side-to-side widgets and widget stacking.
Another slight annoyance is that in modern android quickstep is no longer standard part of AOSP, and depends on how OEM implemented it, which means that on many devices (including mine mix fold 2) you either lose access to gesture navigation in order to use Niagara(I get around it by using Infinite Gestures + OMS overlay to hide the navbar) or get broken animations when swapping between apps and going home.
UPD: it also recently got client-side implementation of monet and built-in contextual variable icons, which works even on devices that don't have it as a part of AOSP. It works marvels and I can't get enough of how good it looks.
And in general, I wish more launchers had fastscroller as overlay option, so that you can get to any app via tapping/flicking onto a letter in a single tap/swipe. Once you experienced it, it's hard to go back to the app grid.
This launcher has solved launchers imo, organization barely matters when if you simply remember the name of the app, you can get there in under a second easily. Sometimes I forget something was in my favorites and just use the scroll by habit, its just that big a non issue.
You mention you simply remember the name, I find that difficult for me. I don't remember whether it's "Google Maps" or "Maps", if it's "Headphones" or "Sony Headphones".
I have tried a few times to get into the Niagara launcher, but without luck. It's too mm. "sterile" for me?. I really like being able to group apps in the 2D-"space" of the grid system. Main screen tries to be uncluttered but music control to the right, light-bulbs control to the left, car in middle.
Payment? That's a bottom row on page 2. Communication - right side of lower row. Etc. etc.
It does sometimes get a bit wonky . not very "pleasent" to the eye, but it's so pleasent for my brain at least.
I sometimes try to clean up, but the apps often ends up grouping together again in almost the same configuration.
Here's to difference preferences for launchers! Cheers.
Kvæsitso is the one I use currently: https://kvaesitso.mm20.de/. The design is really good, and the widget support is nice. Search is not as perfect ass the classic KISS, though: http://kisslauncher.com/.