Hi,

love your launcher @ock88@lemmy.world

Was a long-time Nova launcher user and made me switch with ease. Even though it does not implement all Nova convenience features it’s already so good at this stage that it made the switch worth it. Most stand-out feature for me are stacked widgets that help preserve so much screen space. Using it on two GrapheneOS devices right now. Already sent some support your way.

A few suggestions / observations:

• It’s understandable if you decide to not open-source it, but would be great to have a central issue tracker for bug reporting / feature requests. Would make your support work easier I guess? Could also involve the community to sort and clean up reports.
• One main observation (bug?) that is affecting my experience regularly: Other launchers allow you to open a folder and re-arrange apps by simply dragging and dropping right then and there. Not sure why the launcher insists on going through the dedicated “Arrange items” option to sort apps within a folder.

Feature wishlist:

• Would be great if the launcher would read the show / hide private space flag and show / hide private space accordingly in the app drawer.
• Add newly installed apps to the home screen automatically.
• Might be a very obscure niche thing that does not affect many users: I’m using the PixBit icon set and Nova somehow renders icons that are not available within the icon set with a pixellated custom outline which results in a very cohesive icon experience… even when icons are not available natively. Not sure how they do that, but that’s really impressive.
• Per-folder setting of “swipe up/down” or “open folder” behavior instead of one global setting

Happy if maybe something gets picked up in the future, but already committed to the launcher as-is anyway. Thank you for your work in any case!

Totally agree with “We don’t degrade in these parts. We give constructive criticism or say dope that’s awesome!”

The one exception being people teasing us badly without sharing their code.

Edit: nevermind… just saw your edit. Nice job! Thanks for sharing :)

Where will your non-profit be based?

Will be published next week with specs & pre-order page

Completely depends on where you are located. What’s you country?

US imported $3.2 billion in goods and exported $595 million. Trade deficit of 2.7 billion Syria, Iran, Venezuela (according to Forbes) were tariffed - despite being already sanctioned.

Can reproduce and just shot the dev of Raccoon an email if we can do anything to fix it on our side. Love when this hopefully is all done within Lemmy natively and redirect services are not needed anymore.

URLs are now prettier - while being fully backwards compatible to the initial path structure.

Edit: Also handling invalid URLs more gracefully now

Got it.

Updated the issue tracker.

Absolutely open for that.

But not sure I’m following. Couln’t you already define the custom URL as https://lemsha.re/%s and leave GET params empty?

I like that. Will pick it up for the next update.

Added Photon UI support today.

Also looked into implementing Mbin support. It’s quite straight forward what needs to be done. Can’t promise anything soon though.

Do you mind submitting an issue to the repo? https://codeberg.org/lemshare/lemshare

Honestly not sure how the info about its existence would have reached me. Other than being part of every lemmy instance sign up form maybe. Or might have stumbled upon a mention on the https://join-lemmy.org/ home page. Endorsement there would be awesome.

There are browser extensions that offer similar functionality on a personal level - but even those I only tried after.

Hah. Did not know about lemmyverse.link

I like that they pre-fetch the link metadata. Other than that and the delay option I don’t see much difference.

No immediate plans for Mbin support. My plan is to publish the code and make it FOSS, though. Should be quite easy to extend (and self-host if you like).

You are right. I think I read that wrong. I thought automatic segment skipping like YouTube SponsorBlock. You definitely can fast forward using buttons.

[…] Battery life: I’m really excited that battery life will be increased from 7 days to 1 month! This is due to massive improvements in Bluetooth chip power efficiency over the last 10 years. […]

Source: https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches

Don’t love the closed-in ecosystem but Garmin watches with MIP display do almost all you just said.

• Touch screen + also Buttons for 100% touch-free interaction
• Battery life of around 3 to 4 weeks (depending on what you are doing)… more with the Solar models
• Media control is there, but don’t really use that

Podcast ad skipping sadly not a thing.

Price might be an issue though. The top end models with all the whistles come at a smartphone flagship price point.

Ah. That’s even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.

Hmm. Will try it some time. Sometimes it feels like being shadow-banned… but TBH it’s more likely just not so active communities / mediocre contribution on my part.

haha. seeing as I don’t usually get much interaction I would never notice.

switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same… there is a good chance with all that’s going on.