The article linked above (and its translation linked by @olf) is very detailed with respect to gestures and UI in general.
Thank you @davidrasch @olf @remote - the article shades indeed some light on the improvements. I spotted only one new gesture though (apart from a vertical swipe instead of a horizontal swipe for changing screens):
However, I wonder whether the change from a horizontal swipe to a vertical swipe (just as in SFOS 1.0) has some implications on the in-app gestures because it allows for instance a gesture within the browser that lets you get back easier to a previous page (atm it is a bit incoonsistent with other apps like, for instance the file manager)
Maybe Jolla can borough some ideas from OMP …
Introducing the new version of Aurora 5.0 at RTC Tech Day, 08.12.2023
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From the intro music:
““Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f*cking big television, choose one of two mediocre phone systems”.
Claims hundreds of thousands of installations.
Vetted by the FSB for security (guessing such phones are boot-locked).
10 different phone models.
Selling to the public.
They based the new UI on iDroid (did they lose access to Lipstick?)
The video shows off ambiences.
Producing 16-bit version.
Aurora 5 drop pull down menu in addition to new gestures.
Aurora 5.1 with new devices coming May 27th
https://vk.com/video-211011274_456239276?list=4d50008211947984a3
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But there in nuance. (For legal entity).
Animations and speed are crazy. Feels like an actual modern device.
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Too bad we cannot buy it in the west. Probably is much better than Sailfish.
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Soon will appear the fanboys to tell us how Rostelecom has huge resources and Jolla is just a tiny company. They will always accept any crap and never admit that others are simply better!
There are a lot of things I like on Sailfish and Jolla and there are a lot of things I don’t like.
It’s easy to weigh advantages and disadvantages against each other. The result is always a personal thing based on what is more important for one self and what less.
So I don’t understand this ranting all the time. Decide if the disadvantages have more weight for you or not. If they predominate, then draw your consequences and choose another OS instead of ranting.
For me at the moment, there is still more light than shadow. That may change in the future, but up to that point I try to be constructive and helpful. And if it changes I will for sure simply choose the system which I find more fitting for me.
By the way, judging from a few seconds that a system is snappy or not is ridiculous, just change the animation speed of your SF-device. The phones which are offered with aurora OS until today are far worse than any Xperia 10.
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You mean all the Russian fan boys who will talk down Jolla and praise a device (that they probably never tested in real life) regardless of how much blood pours out of the charge port? 
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What was the topic here? Just asking.
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You live up to your last name mister Sane 
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and how much blood pours from your J devices after all Rostelecom money put in it?
PS don’t you know, now the ‘current thing’ is Israel v. Gaza.
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What I find ridiculous is that at this day and age sailfish has 0 opening and minimizing app animations and it takes a long time to open the most basic apps like let’s say a calculator.
Literally waiting looking a square loading so that after a few seconds it will just appear on the screen. How ridiculous is that in 2024 and specifically with the hardware we have available?
I never used Aurora in my life and I don’t plan to ever use one. But even if the above video was only 2 seconds, it would still be obvious that it is opening these apps instantly and with proper smooth animations. Sailfish doesn’t.
So please, think again what is ridiculous.
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My calculator opens quite fast:
I don’t know the transitions used in Aurora OS but maybe the shown apps were as well already open.
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Try an officially supported device.
Here’s the latest and greatest, 10 III.
Obviously the calculator was an example because it’s an app that you find everywhere and it opens instantly even on dumb phones.
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I hate to say it but when looking at some of the videos, Aurora 5.x looks really good, would be really nice if sailfishOS 5.x would become more or less same
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