I personally dont believe making a wishlist will make much of an impact.
Jolla’s workers have their own priorities, and limited time and ressources.
They are the most entightled people to make their own prioritisations and iron the UI/UX environnement.
Plus they have already a UI UX philosophy and rules. Some of which you can read here: UI | Sailfish OS Documentation
Anyhow if you ‘desire’ anything very hard , then you can contribute, write the code, and propose a merge.
That may work.
But developpers/workers are going to work on what ‘they’ already identified as important for them, fair enough.
Revisiting this thread made me realize how I still miss the meego layout.
We all understand why the home screens layout had to change slightly from the N9, but I have a different view on the topic after last year.
1 year ago I got the HMD skyline just to remind me of the N9. In my mind (in a way) sfos gives me a fork of the things I miss from meego and skyline a fork of what I miss from N9 and Fabula design.
It took some effort, but I managed to make Android look and feel as close as possible to Meego (visually of course).
Yet on my sfos devices I can’t (or at least I don’t know how) customize the screen layout to be apps in the center between open apps and notifications, and there is a lot of UI elements I cannot customize easy and sustainably (meaning set and forget, and not be afraid of updates).
So what I would like from sfos for the next years to come would be easy UI customization to make our devices look and feel the way we want them, without patchwork, half measures and tedious processes from non-devs!
The app drawer is okay like it is. Nevertheless I share the wish for a list view, especially when one has, a lot of apps, rearranged in t the app drawer, maybe even with several folders, one might get lost in searching for a specific app.
Right now swiping left or right from the middle of the app drawer had no effects. And idea could be to open an alphabetical list view of apps when swiping sideways from the middle of the app viewer - swiping sideways from that list view leads back to standard app viewer while swipes from the top or bottom should have the same results as normal app viewer (=closing app viewer).
I wish, the size of the keybourd could be changed separately. I like bigger keys. actually the SFOS keyboard on my Xperia 10III too small for me, resulting in lots of mistyping.
how to tweak the keyboard qml files.
In my case I made the keyboard smaller and use a stylus, but you also can make it bigger if you want.
But the same way you can make it bigger by changing the keyboard height value.
Yes these files can be edited only as devel-su. After editing, restarting GUI by Sailfish utilities is enough. Full reboot is not necessary. Don’t forget to make backups before editing, please!
I’m pretty sure getting bigger keys in portrait mode would require a completely new layout.
So, how did it go, @Demonia? Were you able to accomodate your large fingers?
You are rigth. I changed a bit the height oft the buttons and a litte size oft shift, point and symbols buttons. This helps a little, but not really the solution
Phone orientation - auto rotation is annoying sometimes.
User unintentionally flip apps and make them redraw UI (eg. Spotify), loading, waiting, then correct position, shake phone to show right again, and wait again.
It would by nice, to have advanced setting for those small things to tune up, like phone orientation setting. Adjust angle necessary to flip, deadzone/hysteresis to not flipback.
Or some semi-auto mode, when user must hold volume down and rotate phone, to make it flip.
Yes I use SfOS daily since Jolla Phone 1, on Xperia 10, and now, waiting for JP2, on Xperia 10 II.
If You read carefully, I have lack of customisation, fine tunning, as was on iRiver player yaers ago.
I use autorotation with dashboard also. But some slow apps like Spotify are annoying if rotation goes accidentally. Of course I can disable autorotation, like in almost every OS from top menu, but I think SfOS is better, and can lead in customisation, features, not like big tech ‘knowing better’ what and how user do and like.
I like the idea of bring able to invert the current hold-screen-while-rotating-to-lock gesture to hold-screen-while-rotating-to-unlock. I bet this is something that could be patched
installed pico editor, everything is fine.