[Survey] Which patches would make sense for upstream

asked 2016-10-21 17:11:10 +0200

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updated 2018-07-06 13:24:03 +0200

olf
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Hi folks,

coming from another thread where we discuss patches vs. updates (here), I wanted to start a survey which patches would make sense for upstream? -> Which patches should become part of the SFOS Settings.

There are so many good patches some that really change the usability of SFOS in a great way. So lets collect which are the most famous ones.

For those who need an overview, here are the lists of patches:
https://coderus.openrepos.net/pm2/projects/ for patches from Patchmanager's web-catalog and
https://openrepos.net/search/nod/patch for RPM patches.

Post your favorites as answer, the most upvoted I will collect here in the OP.

Edit: Now it's a wiki... :-)

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TOTALLY aggre ! I just can't understand how Jolla think about updates. They never give settings to the users when new features comes, they only choose for them.

malibu1106 ( 2016-10-21 17:43:31 +0200 )edit

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@PatsJolla I woud like to see one survery more: "which patches did you used on jolla OS 1", because it would give all an overview, how use-cases changed, so even Jolla can see how the use of the phone changed after redesign the UI complete. The patch as answer and vote if someone used it. I think there was not so heavy use of patches at all...

poddl ( 2016-10-21 18:19:53 +0200 )edit

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I'd like to vote for "Jolla should not add any more choices to the settings". Once it's an official feature, it's behaviour with each of the possible choices needs to be tested for each new software release. I'd rather not have Jolla's limited ressources be spent on this as long as more basic functionality is missing and the intended behaviour can be achieved through patches anyway.

ossi1967 ( 2016-10-21 18:22:42 +0200 )edit

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I think this question and all answers should be labeled as community wiki. Beside this I agree with @ossi1967.

silta ( 2016-10-21 18:47:33 +0200 )edit

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I agree with @ossi1967. That said, some features like swipe to lock were removed for no good reason, because the ambience switcher is completely useless, and it would be good to have these back. I'd just get rid of the ambience switcher altogether, but I'd already be happy with just an option to re-enable swipe to lock.

nthn ( 2016-10-22 01:05:41 +0200 )edit

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answered 2016-10-21 17:45:31 +0200

mdosch

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http://blog.mdosch.de/

Restore swipe to lock

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This is the best feature which has been removed with Sailfish OS 2.0. The patch and its settings are great and really should be integrated into Sailfish OS. :)

Alex ( 2016-10-21 19:36:15 +0200 )edit

I like that patch, but it is just required because of the superfluous profile/theme-switcher. And so the patch needs to handle with both lock and theme, with and artifical threshold (awkward but genius by the developer of the patch). The important feature everyone needs is changing the volume, which is handled by the volume-buttons. The shutdown, reboot and theme menu is anyway well served by the powerbutton. Feels like the awkward profiles from the old Nokia days were ported to Jolla O_o

hoschi ( 2016-10-23 13:05:47 +0200 )edit

What does this patch actually do? I have J-C and have only ever seen SFOS v2. The OpenRepos page doesn't explain apart from 'restoring' the previous functionality.

DaveRo ( 2018-07-07 22:00:24 +0200 )edit

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answered 2016-10-21 20:06:34 +0200

hoschi

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http://www.ttyhoney.com/

updated 2016-10-23 13:14:17 +0200

Calendar Upcoming
Show the upcoming events (max. 31 days|weeks|months) on the cover of the calendar app. So you can see what will happen in future and plan ahead of time.

Use cover, which will be empty most of the time
No drawbacks or behavior changed
Similiar to known widgets from Android

The current default implementation shows only events from today.

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You can see more than 31 days. In settings click on days and you can switch to weeks or months.

anig ( 2016-10-23 12:12:03 +0200 )edit

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Your patch is even better than I realized with that possibility. Thank you for your work on it :)

hoschi ( 2016-10-23 13:13:17 +0200 )edit

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answered 2016-10-21 22:04:36 +0200

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updated 2016-10-21 22:11:17 +0200

luen

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Search engines for Sailfish Browser by coderus (not a "real" patch, but if the intent is to vote for tweaks/improvements of the standard system, this package would suffice IMO).