Browser redesign in Sailfish 4.2 feedback thread

[davidrasch]

The design idea coherent with home screen is very nice. I would love if it would also allow to swipe the tabs away to the left, like apps in the grid view when the patch “no home carousel” is applied.

[enrish]

Elegance.
Your pr is a homage to Sailfish design. It would be hard to say no

[nephros]

Damien, thank you very much for your efforts. Looking great, lets hope someone at upstream acknowledges the value.

One comparatively minor nit I have is that the UI does not really follow system color schemes (Ambience colors). Basically it’s all black and white, tinted with a bit of the primary color.

I have a little patch here which uses proper Theme colours instead - is there any interest among those following this threas here that the browser UI gets more colorful as well?

There’s something to be said for the current design: a plainly colored UI doesn’t clash which websites that much - making it respect system colors can sometimes have some ugly contrast.

OTOH glassy instead of flat opaque UI backgrounds are hallmark of Sailfish UI, and the Browser looks very different from everything else (as does the Email viewer).

[karry]

I like system color in Browser menu Anyway, it would be great to use it with blurred background. See ShaderEffectSource and FastBlur QML elements. Not sure it will be working with web view.

[nephros]

That’s simple, using Sailfish Materials.blur instead of my custom enlarged original Jolla mottle glass thingy^TM. I just have that in that screenshot because I add it everywhere.

[Levone1]

Since you can swipe back from tab screen, maybe that back button could do something different…

[nthn]

@dcaliste has a different patch for that, too, higher up in this thread:

Browser redesign in Sailfish 4.2 feedback thread

Browser is somewhat different from many other apps by Jolla - it is open source. I fully agree. That’s a key here. And since I’ve reported and somehow complained already on this forum about the disappearing of the pulley menu in the tab page, I’ve started to see how to get it back. It’s still highly work-in-progress, and I didn’t create a PR yet to officially discuss it with maintainers. Indeed, I’ve broken one or two things, there’s a regression on the “open a new tab in private mode” featu…

[dcaliste]

@nephros

I have a little patch here which uses proper Theme colours instead - is there any interest among those following this threas here that the browser UI gets more colorful as well?

I think it’s a good idea. It would be great to get such a patch reviewed and merged (if accepted) upstream. It would improve consistency a lot, as much as using pulley…

[nephros]

First and most simple version, against upstream/next rev 0e401c5f. Sorry for posting this here, I can’t be bothered to make a PR just for 15 lines of color changes

diff --git a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenu.qml b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenu.qml
index 814b9900..9e446962 100644
--- a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenu.qml
+++ b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenu.qml
@@ -141,9 +141,9 @@ SilicaControl {
                         width: footerLoader.width
                         height: footerLoader.y - y

-                        color: Qt.tint(
-                                    popUpMenu.palette.colorScheme === Theme.LightOnDark ? "black" : "white",
-                                    Theme.rgba(popUpMenu.palette.primaryColor, Theme.opacityFaint))
+                        color: Qt.rgba(
+                                    Theme.highlightDimmerFromColor(Theme.highlightBackgroundColor, Theme.colorScheme),
+                                    Theme.opacityFaint)
                     },
                     Item {
                         id: decoratorParent
diff --git a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenuFooter.qml b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenuFooter.qml
index 7dbdd65c..3f2648bd 100644
--- a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenuFooter.qml
+++ b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/PopUpMenuFooter.qml
@@ -17,9 +17,9 @@ Rectangle {

     height: Theme.itemSizeMedium - Theme.paddingMedium
     implicitWidth: content.width
-    color: Qt.tint(
-               Theme.colorScheme === Theme.LightOnDark ? "black" : "white",
-               Theme.rgba(Theme.primaryColor, root.overlayOpacity))
+    color: Qt.rgba(
+               Theme.highlightDimmerFromColor(Theme.highlightBackgroundColor, Theme.colorScheme),
+               root.overlayOpacity)

     Row {
         id: content
diff --git a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabItem.qml b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabItem.qml
index 8f475995..a72e92e4 100644
--- a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabItem.qml
+++ b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabItem.qml
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ BackgroundItem {

             Rectangle {
                 anchors.fill: parent
-                color: Theme.colorScheme === Theme.LightOnDark ? "black" : "white"
+                color: Theme.highlightDimmerFromColor(Theme.highlightBackgroundColor, Theme.colorScheme)

                 ColorOverlay {
                     anchors.fill: parent
diff --git a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabsToolBar.qml b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabsToolBar.qml
index ce1c6fcc..ec71c80b 100644
--- a/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabsToolBar.qml
+++ b/apps/browser/qml/pages/components/TabsToolBar.qml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ Item {
     Rectangle {
         anchors.fill: parent

-        color: Theme.colorScheme == Theme.LightOnDark ? "black" : "white"
+        color: Theme.highlightDimmerFromColor(Theme.highlightBackgroundColor, Theme.colorScheme)
     }

So, selecting Theme.highlightDimmerFromColor(Theme.highlightBackgroundColor was more or less a random choice for the background color base, but it certaily is better than defaulting to black/white.

[KuroNeko]

Soooooo, 4.4.0 should have a close button again. https://github.com/sailfishos/sailfish-browser/pull/905

Feel free to bikeshed, if the overlay should close or not after closing a tab :3

[rainemak]

Thanks goes to https://github.com/deepbluev7 to drive “close button” through. I just merged it.

[KuroNeko]

Finally some closure! (Btw, deepbluev7 is me, I just chose a different username for some reason :3)

[vlagged]

Great work!
I love the Qt6 snaps in there .

[emva]

First I created this post in #bug-reports then I thought about #design at last i saw this thread

Ttile: Menu on top of default text in browser. papercut / minor issue

REPRODUCIBILITY: Always
OS VERSION: 4.4
HARDWARE: Xperia X / 10 III
UI LANGUAGE: Norwegian
REGRESSION: ?

DESCRIPTION:

Minor cosmetic issue with the menu overlapping text in the browser.
(May be best to remove help text)

PRECONDITIONS:

Have bookmarks in the browser

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

1. Type in the name of a bookmark
2. Remove all remembered sites in history that have the same name as your bookmark
3. Tap and hold the bookmark

EXPECTED RESULT:

Favicon does not get thrown halfway into the void and the menu do not overlap “Websites you visit will be shown here”

ACTUAL RESULT:

Menu overlays text in portrait mode, but not in landscape.

MODIFICATIONS:

None.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Images from Xperia X

From Xperia 10 III

[attah]

Hmm, maybe this to snuck in in the 4.2 update (because that’s what you are saying by posting here?) and wasn’t noticed because of the bigger issues. It sure isn’t pretty, although it looks like two intentional design choices colliding.

[emva]

Hmm, i translated this in 6 of November 2020, in time for the 4.0.1 release… never mind.

[ApB]

Two issues.

When you open a new private tab from the menu (tap the lines > new private tab) the keyboard doesn’t come up and you have to tap the address bar.

You cant leave private mode in landscape.

Also leaving private mode should lead to the tab view instead of the main page. At least to me this would feel more correct.

[rozgwi]

Is it a good idea to start collecting bugs and issues in this thread?
I think we should keep using #bug-reports for this. Otherwise they’re bound to get lost here.

[ApB]

The browser (as with the OS itself) has a few UI issues that would be nice to be fixed but i don’t think there will be any progress.

[attah]

I think @rozgwi’s point is that these particular ones (start of thread) where generally fixed and this thread should now be considered done. Arguably the issues you mention are somewhat related to this redesign, but they probably get better attention on their own.