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posted 2018-12-06 14:00:20 +0200

Where is Jolla heading?

Hi all, I'm sorry for longer post but I wanted to give you some background to my question(s) at the end. Also I'm sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker.
I'm Sailfish user basically since the beginning of the Jolla 1, I ordered my device as Christmas present for myself ;-) back in 2013. Do you remember the good old days of Sailfish "beta testing" when we were eagerly waiting for every release that fixed or added new functionality (e.g. long awaited copy/paste functionality)? Even though the Sailfish was far from perfect the UI felt great, it was improving every update and we could see where is Jolla going.
Then came version 2.0 and for me it was first warning. Suddenly the clean Sailfish wasn't enough for me and I had to start using patchmanager to go around rather strange design changes. Updates that followed improved feeling from the 2.X Sailfish (maybe I got used to changes?) but they didn't fix all problems and strange design decissions.
Upgrade to Sailfish X from last year was big improvement for me and it gave a fresh blood to Sailfish user experience from my point of view. I started to look forward to Sailfish 3.0 with its promised encryption, vpn and other improvements that were announced.
Sailfish 3.0 release came and I had to say that it was big disappointment for me. Not only that promised functionalities weren't added in 3.0 (yeah I understand now how it was meant but still...) but also great Sailfish user experience feels broken to me with odd top menu implementation. Please don't get me wrong I'm not saying that top menu is bad idea, I only have problem with its implementation to which I cannot get used to even after more than month of everyday using. It almost feels like designer from android was hired to implement it without real continuity to old Sailfish.
I had to say that I'm a bit scared of what will come next. Can we look forward to new updates that will improve good old Sailfish user experience or can we expect another copy/paste from other systems with flint implementation? Actually is there any good designer (visionary) left in Jolla? Does Jolla have any long term plan for the UI?

Where is Jolla heading?

Hi all, I'm sorry for longer post but I wanted to give you some background to my question(s) at the end. Also I'm sorry for my English, I'm not a native speaker.
I'm Sailfish user basically since the beginning of the Jolla 1, I ordered my device as Christmas present for myself ;-) back in 2013. Do you remember the good old days of Sailfish "beta testing" when we were eagerly waiting for every release that fixed or added new functionality (e.g. long awaited copy/paste functionality)? Even though the Sailfish was far from perfect the UI felt great, it was improving every update and we could see where is Jolla going.
Then came version 2.0 and for me it was first warning. Suddenly the clean Sailfish wasn't enough for me and I had to start using patchmanager to go around some rather strange design changes. Updates that followed improved feeling from the 2.X Sailfish (maybe I got used to changes?) but they didn't fix all problems and strange design decissions.
Upgrade to Sailfish X from last year was big improvement for me and it gave a fresh blood to Sailfish user experience from my point of view. I started to look forward to Sailfish 3.0 with its promised encryption, vpn and other improvements that were announced.
Sailfish 3.0 release came and I had to say that it was big disappointment for me. Not only that promised functionalities weren't added in 3.0 (yeah I understand now how it was meant but still...) but also great Sailfish user experience feels broken to me with odd top menu implementation. Please don't get me wrong I'm not saying that top menu is bad idea, I only have problem with its implementation to which I cannot get used to even after more than month of everyday using. It almost feels like designer from android was hired to implement it without real continuity to old Sailfish.
I had to say that I'm a bit scared of what will come next. Can we look forward to new updates that will improve good old Sailfish user experience or can we expect another copy/paste from other systems with flint implementation? Actually is there any good designer (visionary) left in Jolla? Does Jolla have any long term plan for the UI?