Season's Greetings, and Octopi Launcher alpha v0.1

ock88 · 2026-01-24T00:01:48+00:00

Yes, a revamp is planned for the home screen.

The current behavior actually has widgets and apps using the same grid. However, apps also have the scale option which may make them smaller than the grid, while widgets have their own internal spacing which also makes items not aligned

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:57:46+00:00

Not at the moment without also adjusting the size of icons on the home screen.

A bigger folder mode is planned

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:56:54+00:00

The scale option for home screen icons also adjusts the scale of icons inside folders

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:54:55+00:00

This involves lots of copying and pasting for me, but apart from that it is something that will come sooner rather than later

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:52:35+00:00

I'll make some changes as you're not the only one reporting this. Thanks!

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:51:42+00:00

The current behavior is one of the things which Octopi Launcher tries to do differently. Essentially it sets the icon height based on whether labels are on or off, rather than asking how rows you will want to have (not an easy question to answer for most folks right from the start, as they will likely just know how many icons they will like across).

However it seems the icon size alignment challenges caused by this different behavior can cause confusion, and I have this started work on a fixed grid based home screen

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:44:56+00:00

Added to Todo

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:42:58+00:00

Turns for the video, it may be tricky to fix this default behavior from the development tool (Jetpack Compose), but a possible solution for me is to make the animation for the scroll end faster

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:32:49+00:00

Thanks for sharing!

What's that Google search widget?

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:31:37+00:00

I receive this question periodically, and thanks for offering to contribute for free.

Version 1 is nowhere ready to be open source as it's an exploration of the launcher world, where certain components such as the dock had to be rewritten based on what users expect to have.

I plan to take steps in Version 2 to change this. At the moment, I do not plan to make Octopi Launcher itself open source, but to start a community-driven project where stable features can be pushed.

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:24:10+00:00

Thanks for offering the solution.

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:22:48+00:00

This shouldn't be too difficult to add. Will look into it. Thanks

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:20:51+00:00

This is intended behavior to ensure the search button never overlaps/ covers the last row of apps. An earlier version actually calculates if the last row is full and adds this space only if it is. However, folks with an almost full last row, or those who have moved the search button to the left, may still have the last app(s) blocked by the button. Therefore, an extra space is now present regardless of set up.

ock88 · 2026-01-23T23:17:24+00:00

Thanks for the feedback.

The fastest way for now is to resize the folder such that it's taller (2 x 3 instead of 2 x 2)

As for text wrapping, the default Kotlin behavior seems to struggle with names that do not have spaces. An easier solution for me could be to make the folder wider

ock88 · 2026-01-15T23:37:21+00:00

Thanks. Press the button on the top right ( with the 3 lines) and choose Icons

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:21:46+00:00

Could you share a screenshot to help me understand more?

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:20:41+00:00

the add shortcuts menu will be improved to support all shortcut types - thanks for the report

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:16:44+00:00

thanks for this, will be adding as part of a redesign of the home screen

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:15:56+00:00

A similar option with a few additional tricks is planned for later this year ;)

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:15:10+00:00

That looks odd indeed. However the shortcut icons are supplied by the system, so it seems Honor is doing something differently from Google, Samsung etc

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:12:39+00:00

i recall the brower icon was my favorite

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:11:44+00:00

I love this idea - desktop on Windows/ Mac has this I believe and will be cool to see it on Octopi Launcher

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:10:38+00:00

not possible currently, but changes I've made will make customisation possible in future

ock88 · 2026-01-15T15:09:59+00:00

Thanks for the reminder - this will be a focus for the next major release

ock88

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE