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Branch Metrics sucks. They fired almost of all people working for Nova.

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[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 3 months ago

LawnChair is the best option I've tried that has a similar design to Nova.

I've tried at least a couple dozen launchers since Nova got bought. Most of them are either half-baked or have a very different design (e.g. based on radial menus or text-only lists). If you're into minimalism, there are a lot of good options. If you want a full-featured icon grid that behaves more or less like Nova, LawnChair is it.

I'm running LawnChair 14 Beta now. You can get it off the GitHub. Last I checked, the version on Google Play was very old.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

Does the new beta have the same features as the old one yet? Last time I tried it, I couldn't get it to work quite the same way.

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

Do you remember which features specifically were missing? It might be something I haven't used. For me it was a pretty straightforward upgrade from version 12.

The only problem I ran into was that adding widgets was a little funky when changing the grid size. I think I had to add the widgets before changing the grid size (I use a 5x10 grid) or they didn't align correctly. I encountered similar problems with many of the launchers I tried.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 months ago

The folders in drawers are something I miss from the previous version. I can live without it, but that would be nice

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

Ah, I don't see a way to do that. Not sure how it used to work.

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