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That the labels for the apps get truncated so you can only read "Proton" plus the first letter of the app. I'm only able to distinguish based on the icons which isn't great because Pass and Drive are similar colors, and Pass and VPN, and Drive and Calendar are similar shapes.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Now that you mention it... Yeah! I rename the icons to just "Mail, Calendar, Etc..."

[–] nul9o9 13 points 6 months ago

On the other hand, when I install a file manager from Fdroid. It's renamed to something generic that's hard to tell apart from the factory installed apps.

[–] Bolt 25 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not sure what the screenshots are from, but is it not possible to rename the icons for legibility?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Wow, I didn't know you could do that. I've always used the Pixel stock launcher but just recently installed Lawn Chair. Don't know if every launcher allows you to rename or not.

So when I rename they re-sort alphabetically so I'm renaming to "P Calendar", "P Mail" etc to keep them together. It's a little clunky but solves my problem

[–] dukethorion 4 points 6 months ago

Did the same.

[–] LinusSexTips 2 points 6 months ago

I've been using Niagara Launcher on my S10 / P7P with only a handful of icons on my home screen.

The majority of programs I swipe up for a search bar with keyboard. I find it much faster than swiping homepages / folder to dig up a program to launch.

[–] thirstyhyena 13 points 6 months ago

Just as annoyed as I'm with Google's branding icon designs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

The icons can be hard to distinguish, on the fly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I noticed this as well, they are too similar and sometimes I open the wrong one by accident

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I am always doing this with Proton Mail and Calendar.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I do it more with calendar and drive, both squares of similar sizes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

What would you like to use today? The proton square? The proton rhombus? Or the proton triangle?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On many launchers you can enable two lines for labels, so you don't have to manually rename them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

And you can rename the labels. Or remove them completely and just rely on the app icons.

[–] dukethorion 5 points 6 months ago

Some icon packs still include the old Proton Mail lock icon 😀

[–] nosnahc 4 points 6 months ago

A new note app is incomming !....

[–] asininemonkey 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Yet another reminder of why I love the Niagra launcher so much.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This app may share these data types with third parties

Location, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs

This app may collect these data types

App activity, App info and performance, and Device or other IDs

Why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah, especially seeing how on others like Lawn chair I can edit the name myself

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Generally an issue I have with a lot of apps unfortunately.

[–] chethan 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

My solution - Screenshot of a phone with icon labels turned off

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

idk why they shoved it right in the start, i mean i just want to check my mails man, if i want to check out proton drive or other stuff i will access them from the side bar or menu. kinda annoying move.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I'm more a visual person. The icons are all I look at.
But all the first letters are unique. So that should work well enough, no?

[–] reddig33 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Im trying to figure out why the icons all need a white circle behind them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

All of my icons are circles. Are yours not?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

As with all your other questions, it depends on your Launcher

[–] reddig33 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I was just commenting about how it’s half-assed design to just slap an existing icon against a white background and call it a day. Compare to the lawnchair icon, locus, or even the Lyft icon in your screenshot. You find the names annoying, I find the design laziness annoying. Companies do it on iOS as well (including Apple).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing the issue on Android. Unless it's my GUI default text size being smaller...?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Same here. My android icons all have full names. I haven't messed with icon or text sizing at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Maybe you could rename the icons through your launcher? I think Nova lets you do it. That does kinda suck tho :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

I don't really have any apps on my home screens or my desktop pages.

I have them into groups on mobile and I just pull them up from the start menu on desktop

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Laughs in iOS