Comments on: Jolla Sailfish UI: Video Introduction

By: quixote

quixote — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:08:48 +0000

The irony of it all is that video can’t be seen without Silverlight, and as a linux user, I’m dead in the water. :(

The main thing I want to know: is the UI customizable? Can I decide which icons and apps are front and center in the launcher? Or on any other screen for that matter?

By: EnGineCZE

EnGineCZE — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:05:49 +0000

Well, as they are showcasing Sailfish on n950, there are probably every needed driver already available… And since n9’s/n950’s hw is similar there should not be problem to port it to n9. Even Jolla confirmed this on twitter. :) N9 with sailfish would be awesome and just rock! :)

By: ejvictor

ejvictor — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:53:34 +0000

Did you see at second 50 the Android dude on the screen… runs all android apps?

By: chinaren

chinaren — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:09:24 +0000

chinese need change

By: Chandan Mhaishkar

Chandan Mhaishkar — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:07:13 +0000

Short demo….With this it is budget os.Descent….Let see full demo….

By: baga

baga — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:06:41 +0000

i am from china , i like jolla’s ui ,so beautiful,i hope jolla will be give chinese a suprise,best wish

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:59:14 +0000

I really like it,it’s much better than the “A” OS, is the SDK available?

By: Act

Act — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:44:34 +0000

This video of sailfish on N950 is more comprehensible http://www.katsomo.fi/?progId=154747

By: jonas lihnell

jonas lihnell — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:07:33 +0000

This mostly looks like a mashup between maemo 5 and harmattan with the added addition of states on widgets (allowing a widget to have multiple states you can browse through) and the ambience feature.

While I like both of those UI’s I see a couple of horrors in here:

1. “effortless” does not mean “have to drag down a *hidden* menu, then drag down the *hidden* menu to show a *even more hidden* menu”.

2. Ambience, while giving a nice touch and feel to things, breaks the concept of pattern learning making it harder to pick up and just know what everything means.

That said, I see on really sweet possibilities here just waiting to be capitalized on:

Widgets allowing you to browse content based on context (Music player that plays an album could allow you from the widget to either play/pause current track which would be default action of clicking the widget, but they could also use leftright flipping to allow you to browse the contents of the current context, ie, the album tracks. A game emulator could allow you to change games this way, consider that you have 5-10 favourite games and you enter the favourites folder in the emulator, start a game and play for a while, then minimize it to a widget. flipping the widget could give you the option to start a new game easily).

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:05:24 +0000

I think you’d probably be able to flash it on the N9 when its made available… but most likely with limited features. probably the same errors with NITdroid (phone calls, camera, etc wont work)