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Jerboa is a great app but has anyone considered changing the icon?

3 years ago by Nils to c/jerboa

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The app icon looks much less polished than the app itself. How about we change that?

ode 34 points 3 years ago

One of the great traditions of FOSS is its refusal to adopt that corporate visual design ethos which turns every logo into an abstract solid-colour silhouette optimised for mobile rendering. I like GIMP's plucky rodent, for example. A counter-example would be the sad [d]evolution of the Firefox.

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MothBookkeeper 21 points 3 years ago

We can have nice design without the corporate bullshit. They aren't the same thing.

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PropaGandalf 4 points 3 years ago

Oh god no, please no

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Predator 21 points 3 years ago

They have a icon contest on the main page.

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nils 8 points 3 years ago

That'd be great but I can't find it! Any pointers where that's happening?

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NewBreeze 19 points 3 years ago

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can 1 point 3 years ago

Built in to Nova Launcher too. But I just put the app in a circle and I'm happy.

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bionicjoey 3 points 3 years ago

Nova launcher was sadly bought last year by a Chinese data harvesting company. If you care about your digital privacy you should switch to something else.

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can 2 points 3 years ago

God dammit, anything with decent feature parity?

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summervacationtoHoth 3 points 3 years ago

I dumped Nova for Lawnchair. It's not as actively developed as Nova was, but it's a decent replacement.

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bionicjoey 2 points 3 years ago

Honestly I'm not sure. When they were first bought I switched briefly to one called OpenLauncher on fdroid. It's good and similar but not actively being developed. I recently switched phones (to a Fairphone 4) and since have just been using the stock launcher that came with my phone though.

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CapeData 1 point 3 years ago

Revert to v6.2.19 and disable auto update - still works great on Android 13/One UI 5.1.

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brobocop 18 points 3 years ago

Nooo leave the cute thing

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MothBookkeeper 17 points 3 years ago

Let's just say it, the icon sucks ass.

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nilaus 1 point 3 years ago

No! It is great!

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MothBookkeeper 13 points 3 years ago

You're great.

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nilaus 1 point 3 years ago

You're not half bad your self😊

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imnotneo 1 point 3 years ago

can I get in on this bromance?

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Nuuskis9 15 points 3 years ago

The icon has an animal which is known as 'Jerboa'. But in Android one of the easiest tasks is to change the app icon and its name into any.

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humanplayer2 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah, but that won't affect e.g. the icon of this sub.

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PropaGandalf 10 points 3 years ago

Yeah something matching it's beautiful clean UI. Like a reduced jerboa head or smth.

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Chozo 12 points 3 years ago

"Reduced jerboa head" sounds like a fancy French dish that I can't afford to order.

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PropaGandalf 3 points 3 years ago

Your not wrong lmao. And then you order it and get 5 grams of mice meat on a huge plate garnished with a few plants that you really can't be sure if they are to eat or just to look at. Then you eat it for half an hour (you don't want to gorge), leave the plants on the side just to be safe and smile at the waiter with a forced look on your face and say that everything was so wonderful. Afterwards you go to McD's to get properly stuffed.

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emeralddawn45 3 points 3 years ago

Hi im Mac.

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PropaGandalf 1 point 3 years ago

Mac Suckerberg?

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snota 10 points 3 years ago

I like the icon.

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JshKlsn 10 points 3 years ago

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eric 4 points 3 years ago

I'd like to see something similar to the Tusky app's logo.

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xyzinferno 1 point 3 years ago

I'm actually working on a few right now! I'll try and have em done by the end of today, and I'll see if I can post em to this community

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nils 1 point 3 years ago

Awesome! Please share

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xyzinferno 1 point 3 years ago

Of course! I made a post here: https://lemmy.world/post/2002082

I just have the icons I made so far saved on a google drive folder

But yeah, like I mentioned on the post, if there's any kind of icon you want designed, feel free to ask and I'll see what I can whip up

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6mementomori 1 point 3 years ago

nooo i love the icon :c

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nilaus 1 point 3 years ago

Nooooooooo. Keep the icon. It is one of the things I like best about the app! And I'm not even joking.

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Sleepzy 1 point 3 years ago

Change the icon is the first thing that I have thought and I tried to create one. But a jerboa is so difficult to make as a good icon :c

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loom_in_essence -7 points 3 years ago

The logo icon is the only good thing about jerboa. I switched to Connect and haven't looked back.

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