Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?
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@Cycle-Maniac
Ubuntu Touch would not benefits a fork, there is so few dev power that splitting effort would be a loss for us, users.For now, the goal is to have a full working 20.04 UT.
And then maybe some work will be done to the UI.
Some is already done for example the app Ubuntu Touch tweak tool gives user lot of options that are not in the OS settings, like scalling or touch edge settings, but in the last UT updates, some of those settings are now included in core setting app (edge setting for instance).
UT UI in the canonical era was way different from now, but when ubports took the flag, they made choices to focus on the most important.
Homescreen(s) and UI is an old and long topic here, do some research you'll see that it's not trivial for anyone.
That's why, in the meantime of waiting for something official done to the core OS UI homescreen(s), some work was done by community dev, like Home or Launcher Modular (this one seems to be dead as I just checked can no longer be found on openstore).
For now, you'll have to deal with the actual UI.
I don't know if you're a dev yourself, but if you are, and want to involve further into UT, I'm sure ubports dev team will be glad to have someone willing to improve UT UI.
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@Cycle-Maniac said in Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?:
I am definitely not an Apple fanboy. But as nice and intuitive as iOS (and macOS) work; It really is unbeatable.
Sorry to disagree, but I think you've mistaken intuitive and "used to".
Because never in a thousand years would I have figured about a diagonal draw...UI design of a smartphone is not just about "graphical design", you also have to deal with technical constraints (that can be overcome with time and money) and mostly subjectivity.
Everyone is different and everyone find great things in both iOS and Android, but no one has not a complaint and wish something was different or more like X or Y.Having the drawer less crowded means less apps visible at a glance hence scrolling or typing action.
I thin @kugiigi is right about masking the launcher when the drawer is expended but the transition might be weird...
I thing if the drawer had the same spacing between icons you might feel it is a bit more calming and pleasing (I feel it could be an answer to your issue) but many will probably say that before they had all their favorite apps right there and now they have to scroll...So really not a simple question.
If you come up with a mockup and if someone is willing to try and implement it, I guess we can have a poll and decide to mainstream it or make it available to tweak this out. -
@AppLee said in Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?:
but many will probably say that before they had all their favorite apps right there and now they have to scroll...
This, and also that even is the spacing were the same, the icons would not always align because the icons in the drawer can be scrolled. Also the (icons in the) Dash can be sized independently from the (icons in the) Drawer ...
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@AppLee @arubislander do you know why Launcher Modular is no longer in the store ?
2015-2023 : Meizu MX4 now in legacy drawer by lack of pristine battery 😫
2023-***** : Nexus 5 (16.04 OTA 25) for daily use, slowly dying 🤕
2024-***** : Fairphone 5 waiting UT for freedom 😉
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@Keneda
Sorry, no idea.
Are you on Focal? Or did it disappear from xenial?
Maybe the maintainer removed it? ... Just speculation, I have no clue nor insight. -
@Keneda If it is not listed in the Open-Store at all, then it must have been delisted by the maintainer. The reasons for which I could only speculate about, so I won't.
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@AppLee xenial
I don't find it but recently there were a thread here from the maintener for a new app icon. -
I just want to add; I transferred a donation.
I think my next phone has Ubuntu Touch.
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Thank you for the donation.
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@AppLee said in Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?:
@Cycle-Maniac said in Busy, crowded app overview; Can Ubuntu Touch be converted to an iPhone interface?:
I am definitely not an Apple fanboy. But as nice and intuitive as iOS (and macOS) work; It really is unbeatable.
Sorry to disagree, but I think you've mistaken intuitive and "used to".
Because never in a thousand years would I have figured about a diagonal draw...UI design of a smartphone is not just about "graphical design", you also have to deal with technical constraints (that can be overcome with time and money) and mostly subjectivity.
Everyone is different and everyone find great things in both iOS and Android, but no one has not a complaint and wish something was different or more like X or Y.Having the drawer less crowded means less apps visible at a glance hence scrolling or typing action.
I thin @kugiigi is right about masking the launcher when the drawer is expended but the transition might be weird...
I thing if the drawer had the same spacing between icons you might feel it is a bit more calming and pleasing (I feel it could be an answer to your issue) but many will probably say that before they had all their favorite apps right there and now they have to scroll...So really not a simple question.
If you come up with a mockup and if someone is willing to try and implement it, I guess we can have a poll and decide to mainstream it or make it available to tweak this out.Exactly! I love intuitive designs too and I too am a normal user (and 31 years old, so not an old geezer!), but iOS is not intuitive for me (and Android is even worse). Ubuntu Touch is way more intuitive to me, including the app drawer. I love the app drawer and launcher so much as they currently are, so please don't change that! Or if it's changed, at least provide an option to keep the current workflow for people like me.
