Since we are talking about homescreen changes/improvements, there is something that I observed as well.
Earlier, the homescreen section in the settings app used to have option to display 3 icons and 4 icons in a row. I dont see that anymore. So I believe that was removed. It works okay on devices like keon, peak and revolution. But when we talk about devices like z3 and z3c, which has high resolution screen, in doesnt look good at all. On Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 3:44:18 PM UTC-4, Fabrice Desré wrote: > I've been using the new homescreen for a few weeks now to follow its > progress and also to try Pin The Web. I won't comment on PTW since it's > still too early, but the homescreen itself looks relatively stabilized. > > Some background first: with the vertical homescreen, I was using 4 sections: > One for apps I use very often, one with apps I use less often, one with > about 10 sites I read daily, and a last one with sites and apps I use > once in a while. The second and last sections were usually in collapsed > mode. That was a nice personalized layout, with everything important > easy to reach. > > I tried to reproduce a similar setup with the new homescreen, but this > was not possible: > - there are no sections anymore, just one big list of icons. That has 2 > consequences for me: 1) it's impossible to collapse icons I don't use > often, so I end up with a very busy homescreen. 2) anytime I add a new > icon, I can't move it around the screen without disorganizing the ones > after it. It's super annoying when you have spent time moving the ones > you use more to the right of the screen. > - the scroll snapping is useless. It prevents me from scrolling to a > point where the icon I want to tap is right under my thumb, by jumping > away from me. > > There are improvements also, especially the way we enter and exit "move > & delete" mode. Much easier than the small [x] target from the previous > homescreens! > > While this is based on a statistical sample of 1 user, I'm worried that > we may be about to ship a homescreen with usability regressions. > > I'd like to get answers to some questions: > - why did we start from scratch instead of improving the vertical > homescreen? > - do we still have time to fix some/all of the usability issues for 2.5? > > Fabrice > -- > Fabrice Desré > b2g team > Mozilla Corporation _______________________________________________ dev-fxos mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos
