[on_and_off]

Hard to suggest an alternate launcher since :

-at the moment it is not possible to integrate with Google Now the way the Now launcher does. Although it looks like this is officially going to change (and one of the motivations behind this move)

-tastes in launchers vary widely from one person to the others. I have quickly uninstalled pretty much all of the launchers I have tried since they all tend to give bazillions of options instead of focusing on good defaults.