Version 2 Launcher - what is it?

[Stefan]

Ok, to clarify things:

• Fairphone OS 1.6 (aka Cherry) had Version 1 launcher
• Fairphone OS 1.8 (the postponed one) had Version 2 launcher
• Fairphone OS 1.8.5 (aka Kola Nut) has Version 1 launcher again.

There is a topic, with plenty posts, which explains, why Fairphone decided to go back to the old launcher (Version 1):

New launcher is... optimizable (Feedback)

Dear Fairphone team, I know, updates are important and there are more important things to an update than the look of the launcher… but this is the most used feature of the phone and people spend time to arrange it to their needs, so if you update it, please ADD things and do not take away functionality, such as: number of rows on the home screen the ability to have empty screens all configuratons the user did before (such as arranging his icons and widgets) forgetting the position of page in…

The new launcher (Version 2) however can be downloaded from here. It looks and feels more like the Android 4.4 (aka KitKat) launcher, of course, improved with Edge Swipe.