I actually prefer the paginated scroll-snapping feature. I can remember that a certain app lives on 'page 3' and swipe twice from the top to get there; loose/open scrolling always required a 'zoning in' style approach to finding the icon your are looking for.
I can't believe we want to reintroduce an 'edit mode', this previously made organising my homescreen feel like a chore. What are the reasons for this? Homescreens should be a fun introduction to the personally of the OS. They should be playful and frictionless. IMO the new homescreen is a big stride in this direction. Thanks for the hard work on this everyone! :) *W I L S O N P A G E* Front-end Developer Firefox OS (Gaia) London Office Twitter: @wilsonpage IRC: wilsonpage On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Julien Wajsberg <jwajsb...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Le 11/10/2015 21:43, Fabrice Desré a écrit : > > 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. > > It's good to read, because I gave nearly exactly the same feedback to > the new homescreen developers on friday. > > About scroll snapping, I think it's nice but it should have closer snap > points (for example, 1 per line, or 2 per pages). > But maybe it's not needed at all for the vertical scroll, as we're used > to vertically scroll pages anyway. > > > > > 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! > > Yes. And it's smoother too. > > -- > Julien > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > dev-fxos@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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