Startup time is hopefully resolved: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210737
App grouping isn't going to happen for 2.5 in this homescreen. --Chris On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Gabriele Svelto <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/10/2015 14:25, Benjamin Francis wrote: > > Please see the Gaia meeting notes from July > > <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Meeting/2015-07-28#Systems_front_end>, > > August > > <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Meeting/2015-08-18#Systems_front_end> and > > September > > <https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Meeting/2015-09-08#Systems_front_end>. > > > > /"There's no point in acting all surprised about it. All the planning > > charts and demolition orders have been on display on the wiki for three > > of your Earth months"/ -- Vogon Captain (slightly paraphrased). > > Unfortunately I haven't had time to attend to the meetings or read the > notes; unfortunately I'm in the unpleasant situation of having time for > either fixing bugs or attending meetings but not both. > > Anyway my surprise mostly stemmed from the fact that we're doing it > again, not that I wasn't informed. Considering our limited resources > having to do full rewrites sounds like we did really poor job when > planning the previous one. Anyway I'm digressing, let's get back on the > topic. > > > In all seriousness, the new homescreen has some much improved > > performance properties, a cleaner architecture based on new web > > components, and is a privileged app (!) which makes it more replaceable > > and potentially more updateable. The previous vertical homescreen was > > built for quite a different set of requirements and had gathered some > > bloat, when it came to adding a second panel had some serious > > performance issues. > > On the topic of performance I've tried dogfooding it a bit today and > noticed what looks like a significant issue: on my Flame using last > Friday's latest build the new homescreen takes significantly longer to > start and display the icons than the vertical one. I did a quick > measurement with a stopwatch using this quick scenario: > > - go in an app > - kill the homescreen > - go back to the homescreen and time how long it takes to display the icons > > With 52 installed apps I see a ~5s startup time using the vertical > homescreen vs a ~12s startup time for the new one. This is not a common > scenario on phones with tons of memory as the homescreen will always be > alive but it can be on those with less memory. > > > The new homescreen is not quite fully baked yet (hence off by default) > > and UX have recently carried out a review. As Chris said, the > > recommendations include turning off scroll snapping until it's a bit > > more polished and bringing back the column setting and the edit mode. > > The column setting is just tricky because the Settings API is only > > available to certified apps, and the previous edit mode had its own > > problems (I personally prefer the new UI). > > Yeah, the new edit mode is really nice. Scroll snapping on the other > hand is infuriating especially since I've built plenty of muscle-memory > for scrolling & hitting an app with only a slide and a tap on the old one. > > > Apologies that we had to drop app grouping for the time being, we > > realise that a lot of people use that, but with the addition of a second > > panel it started to get a bit complex. Replacing that feature is in our > > backlog and there are ongoing UX workshops which include how content on > > the homescreen should be organised in future. > > Yes please bring back the grouping & collapsing, those were really > useful features that IMHO set us apart from both iOS and Android default > launchers. > > Gabriele > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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