Bumpy "Glass" Effect - Is It Just Me?

answered 2019-08-25 11:22:32 +0300

Kao
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I guess it is a matter of taste, but I like the grainy bumpy Silica-Look! It gives the UI a more "tactile" feeling, provides an interesting contrast to the plain fonts and icons, just the right well balanced mix.

I was using iOS before, and the worst decision they ever made was the switch to a completely flat design with lots of negative space in the layout. Yes it may be more modern, but to me it is a waste of screen space, and overall just boring. (Androids material design has layer shadows, but otherwise is almost as bad.)

So all in all, if Jolla decides to be modern/boring like everybody else in the UI mainstream, it is good to know where the grainy bumpy textures are - so I can bring them back!

answered 2019-08-23 22:44:01 +0300

ApB
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No its not just you. SFOS needs a bit of a refresh in many aspects of its UI/UX (icons, font sizes, animations and more). Even the latest stuff added could be a bit better. And for sure it would be awesome if things like audio and tactile feedback could be improved. It would make interaction with the SFOS much better.

But i don't think you can expect much on that. They have a lot to fix and UI/UX stuff is lower priority.

answered 2019-08-24 16:38:41 +0300

didilalala
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For sure it can not please everyone to 100% expectations. But for those that strive for more, or less, the system being open allow us to do our own corrective to get it more to our liking. Try to do this on IOS!. Speaking of witch IOS make extensive use of glassy blurred effect, but Sailfish goal was to be unlike so it is ok not being too much alike IOS and or Android. For myself ,the little ''bumpy'' effect does nor bother me at all but yes a litle more integrated tool to modulate/customize some visual aspect of the UI would be appreciated but as long as I can ''fiddle'' here and there that suit me enough, so for sure I am not alike at all.I too am not sold to the stock result of the ''blurred'' result that Salifish is making from the original backgrounds to create the ones that will be use for the app and or menu backgrounds. Those blurred version are located in ''*home\nemo\cache\ambienced\com\jolla\components\bgimages*''. I find that they have been added a color over saturation from the original. So I simply apply the blur effect/level of my preference to copy of the original backgrounds that I want to change for the blurred version and overwrite them in that folder. I even add a honeycomb grid png overlay to them to give a more techno look overall, and yes I keep the bumpy/shader effect to apply on them. But that is me. For the Icons (core and some few other apps) I like them to be more like the rest of the UI (simple mix of solid white (or one colorized portion) and faded gray so when I went across a wire frame set some time ago that where more destined as template to build solid ones, I got them and safe keep them so I am free to use them as I see fit.