On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 8:08:43 AM UTC-5, Toby Kurien wrote:
> I'm an experienced full-stack developer (web, enterprise, and mobile esp. 
> Android), and I've decided to try out Firefox OS after acquiring a Geeksphone 
> Keon recently. I made notes along the way and thought I'd post them here. I 
> hope it's the right place, otherwise I apologize for the noise!


Thanks for the detailed feedback! I have a couple of comments below:

> The Bad:
> - The default touch slop is too large, making the homescreen (for example) 
> feel "spongy" and unresponsive. Example, touch down and drag, and see how far 
> the finger is from the point it touched.
> - I fixed this by setting profiledir/prefs.js "apz.touch_start_tolerance" = 
> "0.1" (default is about 0.2), and did a hard reset. Feels *much* better!

Good to know, thanks! I'll file a bug and have our UX team consider that change.

> - Touch slop is actually too small on the notification shade! This makes 
> toggling buttons like wifi difficult - touches are easily mistaken for small 
> drags.

The notification shade uses a different codepath when determining touch slop. 
We hope unify that in the 2.2 release, but in the meantime increasing the 
ui.dragThresholdX pref might help you with this.

> - No copy & paste, which is cricital for using password managers.

I believe this is coming in 2.2 as well.

Cheers,
kats
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