Only thing I’d like to be adopted from iOS on SFOS is the mail gestures. Apple mail is more swipey than Sailfish Mail, which is way better to use.
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(edit:bad idea. See below)
OT but this could apply to the browser too. (no idea how it works on IOS or others).
The browser could have “back” and “fwd” gestures. (Swipe L/R from inside the screen).
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Impractical as there are too many uses of swipes within a browser window besides scrolling down, like maps, captcha elements, painting surfaces… if you get a fullscreen map you can’t navigate suddenly
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Hmm… yes stupid idea… thought it’d just be enough to zoom out, but for a map…
Where is my mind already? 
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Agreed. The SFOS mail app is very much suck. But I only use it to see if I need to check something on ONE account. I have a lot of mail accounts and it all self hosted. And I like typing. On a keyboard.
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I want to use it to clean up my mails during toilet sessions 
But it takes way too long to delete a single mail. I wouldn’t write on either if I can avoid it.
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Yes. The problem is that the browser has become a universal operating system. If you’ve been hacking browsers as long as I (ncsa mosaic, aprox.) it’s not so surprising, if somewhat irritating. Anyone who’s been paying attention will see that companies like QT have been desperately trying to beat the browser boys to the punch. In fact, QT corp has succeeded to a … degree. But it’s kind of like the search wars. The vc capital folks have turked the game.
Chrome has back/forth swiping on all platforms. You can also try it with your mouse.
Ah, ok, I’m a passive toilet phone user. Just read bad news which inevitably leads to …
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Oh, man. I’ve been doing a bunch of game dev crap (aka, exploring what can be done on SFOS with godot/sdl) and if something is irritating, it’s desktop / mouse gesture shit being generalized. Touch screens are so COOL for building interesint UIs. But it’s so difficult to develope for them because, well, the pc is not a touch screen device. It’s a catch 22.
Kinda incredible as i love the sailfish mail app, more than any mail app i ever had on any phone
The only one that came closer is profimail on android, but it’s not a default app anyway
Still, i always thought sailfish mail had the only well thought interface that made sense on a phone 
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Well, that just goes to prove that you can’t dis-satisfy everyone.
There’s always one person who has just got to be delighted with whatever you’ve done.
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I love the mail app, too! For a smartphone, for me, it’s the best way I can imagine. Surely a smartphone is in principle more or less BS for serious and comfortable work, but for that whats possible on a 6" screen I’m very happy with the mail app.
And I have modified the keyboard and it’s only on SFOS where I can do this.
I actually quite like the SFOS mail app as well. The UI is simple, clear and easy to understand. The problem, for me at least, is it doesn’t work properly with modern account types. Its fine if you can use it with old single factor authentication protocols like POP and IMAP, but try to use it with 2FA Exchange accounts and then it becomes seriously flakey and unreliable - from regular sync failures and account lockups to folders randomly missing. I went through a ‘sweet spot’ phase of using SFOS mail with muliple Office365 work accounts using imap access, but now MS have withdrawn/are withdrawing all single factor access to Office365 accounts so I can’t use SFOS mail any more and am back to my iPhone as a daily driver. 
Ok, sure. I hate mail clients that don’t show ‘text only’ first. An email client that shows html first is a web browser. The number of companies sending html only mails is becoming really annoying.
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True, and it’s even worse when you’re in the company and one of the first thing the HR ask you is: “Please setup this fancy colorful footer”
Sigh. Sometimes I think I have to look at all this PR ad crap as a penance for having worked in advertising. It’s long ago and I thought I had atoned!
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Just warming up the pokers. See you soon.
best regards,
Satan
It’s nice and refreshing to see some positive feedback for a change!
I am a native Finnish speaker, but I prefer to use English in all of my devices to ease problem solving and debugging. However, I do appreciate good quality translations and in this case it makes me super happy to see some proper Finnish being put in to use.
I didn’t choose SFOS because of its UI, but it really is a great one in terms of usability (and looks!). Sometimes when I need to go back and forth between two apps, I’m really grateful for the quick app switching. I hope this configuration will stay available in the future as well!
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Umm. No, I AM SATAN. You may be Lucifer, but I am the lord of lies!
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