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.
this post was submitted on 15 Jul 2023
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Jerboa
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Jerboa is a native-android client for Lemmy, built using the native android framework, Jetpack Compose.
Warning: You can submit issues, but between Lemmy and lemmy-ui, I probably won't have too much time to work on them. Learn jetpack compose like I did if you want to help make this app better.
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We can have nice design without the corporate bullshit. They aren't the same thing.
Oh god no, please no
I like the icon.
There's a fantastic app called Shortcut Maker, with which you can easily change any app icon.
I don't think the Jerboa icon is very attractive myself. So I just took a lovely picture from my phone's gallery. Looks much better now!
Apart from that I love Jerboa a lot. Especially the purple theme is a dream.
Built in to Nova Launcher too. But I just put the app in a circle and I'm happy.
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.
God dammit, anything with decent feature parity?
I dumped Nova for Lawnchair. It's not as actively developed as Nova was, but it's a decent replacement.
I think every current Lemmy app for Android has a terrible icon lol
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.
Yeah, but that won't affect e.g. the icon of this sub.
Yeah something matching it's beautiful clean UI. Like a reduced jerboa head or smth.
"Reduced jerboa head" sounds like a fancy French dish that I can't afford to order.
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.
Nooo leave the cute thing
I'd like to see something similar to the Tusky app's logo.
Let's just say it, the icon sucks ass.
No! It is great!
You're great.
You're not half bad your self😊
can I get in on this bromance?
nooo i love the icon :c
The logo icon is the only good thing about jerboa. I switched to Connect and haven't looked back.
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
Nooooooooo. Keep the icon. It is one of the things I like best about the app! And I'm not even joking.