[NelsonMinar]

Fortunately it is an excellent piece of commercial, closed source software with a long history and a responsive developer.

I tried searching for open source launchers on F-Droid but there's no way to sort a search by date or popularity that I could find.

[piaste]

If you search for launchers in F-Droid, regular ones are largely nonexistent / unmaintained (Neolauncher has some repo activity, but the last actual release is from two years ago).

Instead you'll find it's full of lazy KISS clones that brag about the "minimalism" and "productivity" of search-based launchers... I'm sure that has nothing to do with those being much, much easier to code than ordinary graphical launchers :/

Kvaesitso is the exception, and the one I currently use - it's technically search-based, but it can add enough icons and widgets to the homepage so that during everyday use you don't actually need to type the names of your apps like a caveman.