Thank you for pointing this out. That is probably the reason that no current Trebuchet version can be installed in parallel. That’s why it worked with the older version.
Is there a way to activate it?
(In the meantime, however, I have switched to Lawnchair, as it also allows alternative icon packs to be used).
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Ah I see. I should try that when my new phone gets shipped to me. I was always wondering why it was still there in the first place actually. I assumed it’s that they couldn’t find a way to get rid of it without breaking the system or didn’t want to try so they just kind of buried it. I don’t know they may have it documented somewhere I didn’t bother to look
/e/ use Trebuchet to provide the ‘Recents’ functionality (i.e. the display of recently used apps that happens when you press the square navigation button). They diable the ability to use Trebuchet as the default Home screen launcher because, if two functioning launcher apps - e.g. Bliss and Trebuchet - are installed on the device, then the user will be offered a choice of which to use by default during first time setup. This is not acceptable to /e/ - see this comment in gitlab - because too much choice would be too confusing for their target users, so they disabled Trebuchet.
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much easier way is to use AppManager https://github.com/MuntashirAkon/AppManager and in some repository on F-Droid (I have got update vie F-Droid).
open trebuchet aplication in AppManager go to Activities. From there you can open various parts of Trebuchet.
Mind you may need to use adb to activate tcpip, root and remount to get full functionality including messing with some files and settings
simply plug phone, enable usb debugging, enable wireless debugging (for ease of use and much better portability, if it comes to being able to control some aspects of how your phone and apps are running, while not tethered with computer via USB), and fire up AppManager. It should start in adb mode and switch into root mode. If not, then go to settings > mode of operation - adb or wireless debugging (no need to set root here, as it will switch itself). If you enabled tcpip, then enter tcpip port instead of wireless debugging port and save yourself pairing t wireless debugging. I am running in wireless debugging mode on either wireless debugging port or tcpip port.
You can freeze applications here too, which is useful (I used to have 3 phone call recorders and was trying the best one, but I since switched into BCR - Basic Call Recorder as system app)
I do not have root. I am just using what userdebug gives. I still can access everything on phone and write everywhere. It is bit dangerous, but I don’t care - I have 2 identical devices and experiment on secondary phone.
The easiest thing to do is to throw blisslauncher in the trash can and leave Trebuchet, which is excellent and much better.
They should stop wasting time reinventing the wheel and stop touching what works.
So, we have to install other launchers because blisslauncher is horrible while trebuchet works like clockwork; now, for example, many of us have problems with e-drive while nextcloud syncs perfectly on computers without /e/OS.
Hey! That we are paying and this must work, stop wasting time or we will have to leave our money elsewhere.
I am using NextCloud too. It does work very well most of times. The bigger setup you get the more edge cases you will discover. I have it in home on 8 SAS3 SSDs in LVM RAID6 (hardware RAID led to crash and I have recovered LVM RAID6 crash once already, so have know how). On phone I backup multiple folder (e.g. molly backup, sms import/export …). This sometimes lead to nextcloud simply not syncing some files for short amount of time, but it works. Ultimate privacy is when you hold all your data home and encrypted.
It would be great if we had a choice between trebuchet or bliss in the start when first boot the os.
Not going to happen: as noted above
Not a very open-source friendly way of behaving IMHO: use code from a competitor product instead of implementing that functionality yourself, then prevent that competitor product from running under your OS. That is clearly permitted by Trebuchet’s licence, but it’s not a very ethical way of behaving.
A bit silly to think that the option of two different launchers would be too confusing. I think it would just be much better for many users who don’t like using bliss launcher.
I don’t understand why bliss launcher has been made the default launcher when it’s still in a pretty rudimentary stage. Trebuchet would be a better default launcher in my opinion and bliss could be a beta option.
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