I made a small patch for Jolla Phone 2026 (SailfishOS 5.2.0.17) that display small icon badges on homescreen covers for running apps. Sometimes the covers are a bit cryptic or look way too similar for quick distinction, therefore this little modification…
I like this very much. We discussed it in Helsinki already at the Jolla event this year. On the Jolla 1 there already was such kind of icon or even two on the lower edges of the covers.
I rebooted my phone. Works well and as expected now.
The bright green menu-hint is quite “loud”. It make reading the Status Bar in apps information difficult. Could the width of the menu-hint bar be a setting? The system default felt discreet. These parches add a lot to my user experience @SomethingElse thanks!
Now it installed via web catalog and was visible in PM. Sadly i didn’t apply, seems like a conflict with another patch. I’ll check tommorow. Thanks for your work
Oh, jep. I had opacity set to 0% and misunderstood the logic. Being without status bar clock felt weird. Could there be an option for the small color-menu-hint be set to absolute top of the screen? (yeah… partly behind the notch) I’m asking because when I set opacity to 0% the clock & statuses look good over some native apps. But in other apps the opacity color-menu-hint is disruptively bright. It works good as is, but looking to access a few millimetres of screen space.