HowTo: Ambiences
asked 2014-01-18 14:40:25 +0200
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… to give everyone a chance to become a member of the Holy Orders (see https://together.jolla.com/question/11050/ambience-something-for-esoterics/) …
How to create and configure Ambiences
Although I still believe, that the concept of creating and configuring Ambiences needs an extensive rework, I want to share my knowledge about it in this How-to. Correct me, where I am wrong; add, where I have missed something. For better overview, I will subdivide this into several answers.
Recommended reading sequence
It is intended to be read in the following sequence (unfortunately, the sequence of the answers changes dynamically):
- What Ambiences are
- Types of Ambiences
- Activation of Ambiences
- Changing the settings of an Ambience including a note on ringtones
- Switching between Ambiences
- TOH and Ambiences
- Creating an Ambience from your own image
- Requirements on your own Ambience image
- Manually tweak Ambience colors
- Silence down the Jolla handset completely (theater mode)
Add ons
Note, this HowTo runs over multiple web pages. Observe the "next"/"previous" buttons.
please convert to wiki
chemist ( 2014-01-18 14:59:23 +0200 )editYes I agree, this is definately a WiKi and not question where correct answer is sought for (they all are). Also, when editing this Question and Answers please use the 'minor edit' check-box to not create lot of traffic to ppls inboxes. Thanks.
foss4ever ( 2014-01-18 22:39:13 +0200 )edit@chemist, @jjaone, @Sailor: I do not agree that this should be converted to a wiki (and I am very much disappointed that you did convert it).
First: it is an implicit request to Jolla to include the information in the official user documentation -- not all sailors are a member and/or search this forum and can read English.
Second, and probably more important: If you down swipe (from upper edge) the karma system, I do not mind whether this is a community wiki. But as long as the karma system is there, good HowTos as questions are one option for sailors to get the required karma points -- in particularly since it is much more difficult now to gather the karma points than it was in the beginning of this forum (most questions are closed quickly because they are duplicates [most real questions have been asked already], to find new bugs is difficult [most of the more obvious ones have been found] etc. pp.). For you (and me), karma does not matter any longer (we have jumped the 500 points barrier quite some time ago), but 3/4 of the members of this forum are not yet even allowed to edit community wikis (and their number will rise)! By converting this wiki (and possibly similar ones) you created a leading case -- and this I wanted to avoid.
Please note: Community wikis do not earn karma points for the author. A good HowTo may take hours to create (it did me, creating this one). It is not sensible to simply swipe away the rewards, the author may get for his/her work!
PS: I tried to use "minor edits" but may have forgotten this occasionally. Vote: https://together.jolla.com/question/16206/together-mark-comment-edits-as-minor-by-default/
jgr ( 2014-01-19 13:11:03 +0200 )edit@jgr I didn't convert this to Wiki, but considering it's a how-to type of article it fits well to be a community page to which everyone can easily contribute. Along the same notion I just changed one of my questions to wiki (where the question description now is essentially just an index to answers that provide the content, like in yours). But, I think in these cases it is ok to leave the Answes as normal and just make the "heading" as wiki. This way votes for Answers still influence karma (like in this question you should still get karma from votes to your Answers).
foss4ever ( 2014-01-20 12:23:22 +0200 )editSee a similar example here: How-to name Jolla UX elements
@jgr Could you please use the "minor edit" check-box when editing the Answers, thanks ;)
foss4ever ( 2014-01-21 16:44:32 +0200 )edit