I’ve been experiencing a series of screen refresh sluggishness for a while.  For the most part I’ve been able to attribute it to Launcher Pro‘s, specifically, the Launcher Pro Friends widget.     This widget merges both Twitter and Facebook feeds into a single stream. I loved widget, but it has caused me to rethink that love.

I decided to install Go Launcher last night.  I spent about an hour rebuilding my home screen as it looks with Launcher Pro.  It wasn’t until I had almost finished rebuilding the screen that I realized I may have been able to recover my CircleLauncher folders from backup.  Oh, well…too late for that!

Go Launcher seems to be more stable- it refreshes quicker.  Orientation switching runs much more quickly.  It was very sluggish with Launcher Pro.  There is no equivalent to the Friends widget.  The Facebook widget is ugly and useless. I am using the Go Launcher Twitter widget.  It’s alright.