That's sounds like a poor choice from a discoverability standpoint. On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 1:56 PM Josh Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> You can change the number of columns by pinching. > > -- > Joshua Smith > Plinth Laboratories > > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >
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