Microsoft Launcher crashed on my phone, erased all my settings and won't start again. What launcher are you using and why do you recommend it?
Cosmic Frog
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Joined 1 years ago
Yeah, power consumption is never talked about enough when talking about that type of hardware. I do have an old PC I could use as a server, but I don't need more heating at home. Mini-PCs are cool, but how cool are they?
But anyway, I haven't been able to buy a RPi at decent price in years, so 🤷🏻♂️
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Just two months in and it's your first time in the job? You're good my man, your doing exactly as expected.
If anyone wants to work on a web client for Lemmy, let me know. I'm thinking about it, but seems like a lot of works for just one person.
As a UI/UX designer myself (non-hobbyist), there's UI and there's UX. What differentiates a good-looking design from a crappy-looking design, most of all, is space (or padding). There are many other factors, of course, contrast being also very important for example, but space is number one. But that doesn't make a design good, just good-looking, which is a very different thing.
Adding steps to take a common action (turn off wifi or whatever) because you used to have a certain number of buttons and now you have to hide some to add space... That's bad design. Good looking, good UI. Shit UX.
Space should be added when needed. And you need it, when you do, to make thinks clearer. You shouldn't add space to make it look better if that's gonna make the experience worse.
The number one rule of design is that form follows function. You should make things as pretty as possible until you find the wall of functionality, and then you stop. Going from six quick access buttons to four was breaking that wall. You wanna be just on top of the wall. Go to one side, you get a great looking interface people hate to use. Go the other side, you get an interface that's dense and full of things you want, but looks like a piece of nerd shit.
I'm also tired of people repeating the same copypasted ideas about any new design system out there (as I'm sure most people are when hearing people talk about their area of expertise), but they are not wrong on that regard when it comes to material you. Shit name by the way.
Looking at the conversations they are having on GitHub, that doesn't seem like a great idea. If I was going to contribute to the main repo, it would be to help with whatever they are doing, not to push ideas that they are not looking to implement at this time. They are working on rewriting the UI anyway. I really don't see what would be the problem with having an alternative front for people with different tastes that those of the devs.
It’s simpler than creating a whole separate client
Maybe. But I wasn't really looking for the simplest way to tweak the UI, I'm already doing that with my own scripts. Making a web client with a different UI that people can fork and make their own just sounds like a cool project to work on.
Let's say I start with something simple, like moving everything to the left of the screen instead of centering it. People like OP and me would like that, but from the POV of the lemmy devs, that's quite a shit PR, isn't it?
I would rather have a web client that can go in a different direction UI-wise, and if they like anything there, they can take it for the main web UI. And of course, there are many other advantages of a client, like using multiple accounts from different instances.
Edit: I also like the idea of a simple client anyone can fork and modify to their taste.
No story, but I just found knotwords and it's pretty good.
I disagree with all and every single point you made, to the point that I think the complete opposite about most of them. So I guess those are subjective, not objective issues, and the game is not for everyone. I don't think every game has to be for everyone, but it's clear looking at popularity, sells, and cultural impact, that both BotW and TotK are liked by a huge amount of people just as they are. And I for one would definitely like to have a third installment.
I took a look at lemmy-ui, but I'd much rather work on something more static and detached.
Hmm... that's interesting, I didn't think about that. Definitely not gonna proxy, that's for sure, I wanted it to be serverless.
Welp, I don't know how it could be done then. I would ping Dessalines or Nutomic, but I haven't really decided to start working on this, so I won't bother them. But if anyone feels like going for it, I'll be happy to lend a hand.
Edit: I just saw there's an open PR to allow CORS. I guess we'll see how it goes.
I finally ended up going back to Nova too. There's only one feature I'm missing from Microsoft Launcher, the feature that made me move from Nova to it in the first place, the scrollable wall of widgets. But I guess I'll have to live without it.
I love widgets! Ugly as they are, I love to have a bunch of info at a glance, and most act like shortcuts too. I'm still rebuilding since everything got deleted, but from memory, I got widgets for gmail, whatsapp, todoist, keep, a few music and podcast players, tv time (a tv show episode tracker), toggl, feedly, and something google made called action blocks that let you make button widgets that run predefined actions with google assistant. And I'm sure I'm forgetting at least a handful.
The one thing that made me not use the Pixel launcher is that you can only add screens to the right. Even if you disable that stream of clickbait trash they want you to have on the left of your homescreen.
The thing is that I use a bunch of screens, so I want to have some stuff at the left, some at the right.
Yep. It's never an issue to fill a message board with memes and cats, the hard part is filling the niche communities. I hope it gets there.