Praising Jolla/Sailfish
asked 2017-11-04 08:59:54 +0200
Hello Jolla, hello Sailfish fans!
First of all... sorry about this post, it is in no way question, bug report nor feature request. I'm always nagging here about Sailfish and why Jolla doesn't do this and doesn't do that.
Sometimes we'd need to give positive feedback too, I guess :-)
Because there are qualities in Sailfish that just smashes the competition! My absolute favorite of all times - is that when you tap on some text on Sailfish you get the cursor (is it cursor in English? - I mean the place where you'd next type text) EXACTLY where you want! You can pin point it anywhere in the text and it lands just where you want. I mean... this is just fantastic. Iphone sucks big time with this. Their cursor lands randomly where ever and to compensate it they need to have magnification glass (tap and hold) to correct the problem. I just hate it (and my employer forces us to use Iphones, which is pretty dull). I can't remember now (from Xperia X's days of android - now flashed ;-) if it's the same shite with Android, but atleast not as good as in Sailfish.
And the swiping system of Sailfish OS is just brilliant.
So... Let us know what qualities you like in Sailfish and show your love to the system :-)
Suppose - just suppose - the cursor doesn't land "EXACTLY where you want!". Maybe the user is not as young as you are, or they are bouncing about in a car (as a passenger, of course). How can you move it?
The iOS magnifying glass that you so dislike is actually a neat piece of UI. (On Android I use the the cursor keys on the Hacker Keyboard so I'm not sure what it provides.)
DaveRo ( 2017-11-04 09:27:56 +0200 )editOf course there are different scenarios to use a phone - suppose you are in entertainment park's roller coaster or in a moon rocket lifting off? I mean... this is very subjective of course to a multitude of variants. Well, it's just me, but for me SFOS cursor is way superb o other phone OS. I'm 39 and doesn't have the smallest fingers I'd assume.
lumen ( 2017-11-04 09:37:06 +0200 )edit@DaveRo: In case you need it, there's this magnifying feature in SFOS, too. So no need to envy iOS users. ;)
ossi1967 ( 2017-11-04 10:01:32 +0200 )editWell, the irony is that it's exactly the cursor I despair of, at least here within the browser. ;)
lakutalo ( 2017-11-04 10:01:38 +0200 )edit"in entertainment park's roller coaster or in a moon rocket lifting off..." Hmmm.
Your point - that tapping does seem pretty accurate - is a good one. But I assume that this is hardware-related rather than the OS. On my Nokia N810 I used to have to calibrate the screen - but I haven't seen that for years. My Nexus 9 is also very accurate when tapping. My wife's iPad much less so - but it's very old.
As for the Jolla GUI - I'd say it's a curate's egg. Personally I'd like an to get rid of pulley menus - at least as an option. Try selecting one if several pulley options in a roller-coaster ;)
DaveRo ( 2017-11-04 10:09:35 +0200 )edit