Poll: Bring back old gestures and cover actions or keep the new interface
asked 2015-10-05 13:04:31 +0300
I guess there are a couple of questions and comments on TJC regarding the new interface in SF2.0. Many people complain about the new cover buttons which replaced the gestures, or the arrangement of the events screen which does not feature peaking anymore and does also interfere with some former gestures and also the now missing first line of icons on the home screen. However, it is surely possible to adapt to the new arrangement of the screens and the cover buttons, and usually people only complain if they DISLIKE anything, but most people don't comment here if they agree with the new features and arrangement of the screen. I therefore decided to set up this poll to get a rough idea how the user base thinks about the new interface. Pretty straight forward. I will put in two answers:
1.) Yes, the new interface is better, I really like the new arrangement of the screens and I don't really miss the cover-action swipes. Please keep it as it is.
2.) No, I want the old style cover swipes back, and I want the swipe-up events screen and the quick-access-first-line-of-buttons as in former releases. Please revert the changes.
Please vote up for the option you prefer. (I know this isn't gonna change something in the first place, but it gives a rough idea how the users think and I'm probably not the only one curious about this. And, after all, even Microsoft was listening to their users and brought back the start menu :))
The options here are too big for voting. I would much rather have one vote per feature (covers, events, quick access all as separate).
Nicd ( 2015-10-05 13:24:47 +0300 )editThis poll is, of course, not official. I made it to get a rough idea of the general opinion. I guess if people dislike the new interface, or only some parts of it, they could still vote for "NO" and it would be worth having a closer look to determine it further. If people mostly agree with the new style interface, fair enough, poll is over then.
inte ( 2015-10-05 13:29:12 +0300 )editI would miss the cover buttons, but it would work with the new click functionality too - not as good as the old style but still works. But this cannot be voted with both answers...
cy8aer ( 2015-10-05 13:33:23 +0300 )editWell, I think the best way to get the cover buttons back would be to put events to where it was before :) But as I stated before, put in a "No" and we could eventually examine the "No"s further.
inte ( 2015-10-05 13:37:46 +0300 )editI upvoted "Yes" because there are skilled people who can provide patches to apply specific changes. An idea would be to improve and extend functionality of the patch manager from OpenRepos and make a fully integrated PatchApp (ie. Customize) with automated updates of all patches out of it, which will get official support and even patches from jolla. I think that's what people powered should be like. Patch manager is great, but it would be even better with official support from jolla.
Anna ( 2015-10-05 13:55:44 +0300 )edit