apps to have their own ambience

asked 2015-06-12 16:28:59 +0300

michel gravatar image

I just read the Interview on reviewjolla with Bob Jelica and his problem to create a colorscheme for his app that still looks nice with the transparent look of Sailfish.

Why not let the App choose its own wallpaper and color if need be (let the other things the ambience changes stay the same) and change it back to the users chosen ambience when minimizing or closing the app.

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Sounds like a great solution, and doesn't sound like difficult to implement! ++

simo ( 2015-06-12 16:42:49 +0300 )edit
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It would lead to the same kakafoni of colors you see in android and ios. -1

Tanghus ( 2015-06-12 16:57:17 +0300 )edit
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A Sailfish app can also have an individual background...so no need to change ambience (which IMO doesn't make any sense if I understood your idea right). I think Bob Jelica tries to find the perfect solution for a Spotify app which follows the official UI but also respects the Sailfish OS transparent look. To me he sounds like a perfectionist (in a very positive way!) and he wants to find a way to make his port look fantastic on Sailfish OS.

Switching only the ambience-colourscheme within an application sounds interesting - but I think that would look messy and destroy the clean look of Sailfish OS. Just think of every app having another ambience and colourscheme...would feel like a trip on a rainbow when multitasking ;-)

@simo: Fantastic interview, thank you!

molan ( 2015-06-12 18:25:49 +0300 )edit

@caprico Thanks :) @Tanghus There's a need for some compromise, as there sure are companies wishing to have their own color schema and wouldn't even start the job without that option. So they would be left with a background, which similarly causes a trip on a rainbow as @caprico mentioned. Offering the different companies exactly their own color schema within the UI would be such a compromise, hence I disagree with you on this time. Please reconsider ;)

simo ( 2015-06-12 20:04:57 +0300 )edit

@simo it's been a while that i did my last experiments with QML on Jolla, but as far as I remember, there's no need for a compromise - nor is there a problem. You actively tell an application to use the colors from the current theme.... or other colors of your choice. If a developer needs to put green letters on a blue background and use pink as a highlight color, he should easily be able to do so.

ossi1967 ( 2015-06-12 22:57:18 +0300 )edit