Hi, where else can I upload this image to illustrate what I mean?

This is UI on my nothing phone. I see a major benefit for my everyday mental wellbeing to not have my phone shooting at me with all colors, and instead being “just a good interface”.

There might be some issues with icon recognition and speed of access, but since that’s your device and your icon placement, you eventually getting used to it. In exchange you receive a clean UI which doesn’t overload your receptors, which is a very important thing for the device you look at often.

Weather widget in the middle often shows calendar events, but I don’t discolse that for privacy.

Thanks for listening to my TED talk.

  • WFloyd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    26 days ago

    In the same vein, I use Niagara launcher a monochrome theme - I find it helps with the phone addiction.

    • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Yeah, the same principle. And they UI also done as some custom application you install.

      Phone didn’t come with it installed by default, maybe it is now.

    • IceFoxX@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      26 days ago

      I would like to have a Project Ara without Google buying it up and doing some good PR only for it to disappear forever. Project Ara was presented by Google in 2014 and was a modular smartphone where all components could have been replaced…

  • brax@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    25 days ago

    I’ve been using T-UI for probably 8+ years now. It hasn’t been updated in ages, but it really doesn’t need to be.

    I’ve even built it out by creating a tui folder with empty files in it. Tasker has tasks set to execute when the files are modified, and T-UI has aliases set to touch specific files if commands are entered.

    • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Is it the one you see when you slide down?

      That one is still bombarded by notifications from applications, so I simply have “Do Not Disturb” mode on almost all the time.

      It also allows to disable notification by holding it, but it is like that on all phones, I assume.

      It has support for silent notifications also, but I kinda just nuke whatever new thing pop ups there.

      And also it has customizable buttons for features with the ability to change size and placement. Quite neat.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        26 days ago

        You should be able to long press unwanted notifications and stop the system showing that class of notification or all notifications from some app

        “Turn off” stops that class of notification from that app

        Settings gear takes you to the notification section of the app that threw the notification and toggle any or all of that apps notifications

        You can also get to the notification a couple of other ways:

        • Settings/apps go to whatever app’s settings including notification settings
        • In your switch application view tap the icon above the app’s card
        • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          26 days ago

          And it’s like constantly 50 notifications you never asked for stacked in the endless columns of meaningless information, regardless how often you disable them :D

          But I simply nuke whatever pop ups. Keep sms, and emails.

          I also thought that’s standard, but that UI also allows to customize and disable them per category when you hold your finger on the notification. So I can disable everything, but keep direct messages, for example.

    • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Honestly, that’s too hard for me to figure out how to setup without knowing the outcome.

      Is it good and worth to dig in?

    • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      25 days ago

      No idea, that’s android, so probably. That view is their official launcher, but my phone came with default android looks.

    • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Awesome! I am glad I have your comment in my history. If I ever change phone to another android, I will come back to it, so I know how to swap to monochrome :3

      • RouxBru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        25 days ago

        Look it doesn’t look as good as your UI, but it’s as close as I could get to the monochrome look that I wanted, The widgets still have full colour:

          • RouxBru@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            24 days ago

            It’s nova launcher, paid, but worth it. Also has the nice side effect that when you move to a different phone tour UI remains the same

  • Owl@mander.xyzEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Is there a way to bring back colorful icons without changing the launcher ? The phones and the launcher look solid but these icons make it pretty dull

    • lb_o@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      26 days ago

      Yeah, IIRC you can choose between monochrome and colorful options, but it immediately loses that touch and looks like any other Android phone, which is not a bad thing, Android has a good design overall.