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To me the whole home screen paradigm just doesn't work, at all. I don't keep anything on the home screen, I find it clumsy and disorganized, with things hard to find - just like with the desktop paradigm on Windows.
It seems like a good idea, it just doesn't work for me. I can't find anything on my computer desktop - the inability to organize it other than giant icons of stuff just makes it overwhelming, and it's the same problem on a phone.
I use a combination of folders (Folder Organizer) and Notification Shortcuts (Notification Toggle), because that makes so much more sense to me.
It seems a different paradigm for phones would be more effective than reproducing a desktop.
Oh you sweet summer child 😊
I get what you mean, I really do, but the mobile launcher is very different from desktop.
Let me find an image of what a mobile desktop used to look like. It was literally the original Windows95 desktop, complete with recycle bin and start menu and task bar. Now that does not work on a mobile device, and modern phone launchers are light years ahead of those olden days.
I hope this link works:
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fforum.winworldpc.com%2Fuploads%2Feditor%2Fd2%2Ftoe3rv6udc3v.gif&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=3aece61729c72898491d3dbfe7c7c767230ba63c1bc175f932e91874ab6bb5f6&ipo=images