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

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

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I am always doing this with Proton Mail and Calendar.

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

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

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

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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

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Did the same.

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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.

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

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Now that you mention it… Yeah! I rename the icons to just “Mail, Calendar, Etc…”

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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.

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

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All of my icons are circles. Are yours not?

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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).

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I imagine part of it on Android is for adaptive icons https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/launch/icon_design_adaptive

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

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