Gestures Suggestion
asked 2014-08-12 19:07:50 +0200
Hi a suggestion for your gestures. Look up videos of WebOS multitasking. It's 100 times better and faster at getting things done.
It's still the best way to quickly change between tasks to date. Seriously, who wants to click x's when they can just swipe them away?
Also, the most beautiful feature which wasn't advertised too much from palm, was how with the swipe of left/right on the bezel you could switch instantly between running apps in full screen. Never exiting into a card view at all. Which cuts down time in half with useless clicks.
If you implement their whole multitasking card system, you would instantly have a large webos community to help.
Not to mention new users if you show off the power of multitasking.
In conclusion, To date, there hasn't been or currently is a better faster multitasking experience than WebOS in terms of pure speed.
Just a disgruntled user tired of holding/swiping down the home button, clicking on apps to change between them.
I hope this is seriously considered and actually implemented. Please look up multi tasking videos to have your mind blown.
Best Regards
I'm sure you didn't mean it that way but you come off as quite rude.
Switching between running apps that way is useful but it would ruin the whole concept of cover actions in SailfishOS, something you can't do at all in WebOS. Yet, to me it seems infinitely more useful quickly selecting a cover action without even having to return to the app, than having to swipe back to the app where you want to change/do something and doing it.
"It's still the best way to quickly change between tasks to date. Seriously, who wants to click x's when they can just swipe them away"
But that's exactly what you can do, when you're in an app and you don't need it, you swipe from the top and it's gone (granted I believe since a certain update this is disabled by default). And if you're talking about closing several apps in one go, clicking a couple of x's surely is a lot faster than swiping away every app you want to close.
Besides, you can create your own user interface if you want. Different strokes, etc.
nthn ( 2014-08-12 20:08:06 +0200 )editWhat I saw from the video the multi tasking seemed brutal, just like android.
How are cover options supposed to help me when I need full access to the App?
Say I have 2 documents I need to switch too between back and forth and edit something?
Or reading an email, googling something, sending a text message, then sending an email again.
It would just seem easier to switch between the apps I need with a swipe instead of limited cover actions.
The clicking of x's is not of major importance can, but swiping to change apps is of major importance, if you want to offer real fluid multitasking.
Gselsidi ( 2014-08-12 20:40:16 +0200 )edit