Suggestion: revised gesture to close the active app (made relevant again by SFOS 3.0 UI changes)
Edit by rozgwi: bumping this to bring it back to attention for SFOS 3 and the new top menu
Here's a big proposal: a revised gesture that could ease the way the active app is closed even with the new Sailfish OS 2.0 3.0 UI concept. Here it goes: start sliding finger from either edge (l or r) with peek. Multitasking view starts to appear. After a certain point, a semi - transparent red area (maybe with an "x", or the text "close", or any other visual indicator) appears at the bottom of the screen. If you then drag your finger to this area at the bottom of the screen, the app closes.
Peek and minimize would work as they do now, the device locker / ambience changer would still be available with a swipe from the top edge, but we would recover a quick way to close the active application with a swipe gesture.
EDIT 08/03/2015: I just had this same idea (more than an year later than janick it seems) while thinking about a possible new gesture to close apps in SFOS 2.0 (since it seems that the swipe-down-to-close-an-app gesture may be removed in favour of the new ambience switcher / device locker). I was going to create a new thread but I found this one while doing it, so I'm editing this one instead of creating a new thread, I hope it makes sense.
I take the liberty of adding my ascii illustration of how it would look:
Close:
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| |
| - -|<-*
| / |
| \/ |
| (X) |
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Notice the similarity with minimize/move to back:
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| |
|< - - - -|<-*
| |
| |
| (X) |
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Even if only right swipes are illustrated, of course it should work for swipes from both sides.
One could live with that, I have to admit that sometimes the top is too far away
SieniMaagi ( 2013-12-25 23:42:32 +0200 )editI like to lock my Jolla by swiping from top to down. However sometimes I accidentally close apps. And apparently others do so too.
It would be nice if swipe top-down would always only lock screen and some other gesture would close apps.
otto ( 2013-12-27 00:33:54 +0200 )editI think this is a brilliant idea! With this you could close apps with a super-quick diagonal gesture from the lower right edge to the rightmost bottom edge = MUCH better than it is now. Especially if combined with what otto says about downward swipe always locking screen I love this idea.
gukke ( 2013-12-27 04:22:14 +0200 )editOtto, great idea! Top- bottom swipe locking the screen anywhere would make perfect sense. It would be as "global" as the power button.
janick ( 2013-12-27 09:12:51 +0200 )edit(joke:) Usually I don't close apps: problem solved :D
Sfiet_Konstantin ( 2013-12-30 14:11:17 +0200 )edit