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On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Prateek Jadhwani <[email protected] > wrote: > 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 >
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