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Thanks for finding.
Actually I like the timer when deleting something, but what bugs me, is when I install or update something from store or warehouse and then have to wait 5 secs....

Is there possibly another switch to remove the wait times for store and warehouse?

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Just close the app page when the remorse timer runs in the store and the action will be performed immediately.

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Wow, that's great, thanks!

I suppose a different timeout for positive and negative remorse timers would be too much to ask for, right? ;)

To explain what I mean, most remorse timers are of the kind, "So and so will happen unless you press here." Examples: deleting stuff. This is what I call a "negative" timeout since your action stops something from happening.
The other kind is, "Press here if you want something to happen." Examples: proceed with updates in OpenRepos. This is what I call a "positive" timeout since your action makes something happen.

I would prefer the negative timeout short but the positive one long, but I can understand if that is not possible.

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Sure it is possible, there are even more than one way of doing it. Two ways come to mind immediately, however both require patching the system in several places;

The first way is to change the interface of the timer invocation by adding a parameter describing the timer length. Then, in each place in the entire system you need to go and add the timeout parameter there.

The second way is to implement 2 remorse timers of each type, one running quick and one running slow. Then you again go through the whole system and change the positive timeouts to use the long running timer and negative timeout to use the fast running timer.

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Err, thanks, Juice, I know that much but I did not mean to suggest rewriting the whole OS ;)

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Is that "positive timeout" used anywhere else than warehouse? I think using it like that is wrong anyway. For updates there should be just normal popup notification without timer in it. After all, it's called "remorse timer" so you hit it if you regret your previous action.

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Err, good point. So maybe it's not a request for a tweak but a request for "fixing" Warehouse ;)

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That's what I was thinking too. Warehouse uses remorse timers incorrectly. It's very odd.

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Nice to see that my findings are of interest to the 'tech savvy' users here on TMO. (reducing remorse timer settings).

I'm not a dev, I don't really know first thing about programming or code, but I find it all very interesting and simply love tinkering. (Sailfish SDK leaves me looking like a dog that's just been shown a card trick!). :D

Anyway, I'd like to know what element controls the black background in Launcher on Jolla, anyone know?
When I got my first Jolla a year ago, the launcher background was transparent, but it made a real mess of app name text and so Jolla changed it. I would like to revisit that and play with Ambience creation some more.

I've had a look through just about every directory. I have managed to find and rename (.old) 8 files and as a result, I have a brighter, sharper, clearer screen on my Jolla, No more pyramid textures and much more of the 'wallpaper' from my ambience can be seen, but still falls to black once fully in the launcher window, this I would like to change and have a transparent look, not black....??

Any ideas gratefully received.

Regards,

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

Checked this?

dconf write /desktop/jolla/background/portrait/app_picture_filename $(dconf read /desktop/jolla/background/portrait/home_picture_filename)

All coderus findings. :)

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Thanks Eminem, but not helpful. Perhaps you misunderstand what I'm asking.
I want to lose the black background to launcher, so I can see my ambience behind my launcher icons.
Running the commands you gave either turns the whole desktop/home/launcher to black (actually useful to know) or brings back the current ambience - perhaps I misunderstand :confused:

Regards,

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Launcher is Launcher. Check qml files of lipstick-jolla-home-qt5.

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Thanks coderus - at least I am/have been looking in the right place according to your reckoning :)

Perhaps I missed something. I played with one file, adjusted some figures and left myself with a flashing black and white screen - so I reinstalled Sailfish.

I'm looking again, now I've reinstalled all the required apps/dev mode/etc.
I thought maybe one of you guys might know directly - it's cool, I shall keep looking, any further input appreciated! :)

Regards,

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Thanks again coderus - you made me look harder into launcher and the file I needed to alter was 'main.qml' in 'lipstick-jolla-home-qt5' - Fan-fkin-tastic!! :)

Regards, :cool:

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This is all very interesting...have you documented the files you've changed anywhere? Might be useful to have a wiki page somewhere for these sorts of tweaks?

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Hi skanky,
no, to answer your question, I haven't made any documentation for the files I've played with. I suppose ultimately, Together Jolla would be the place for such a wiki, or here on TMO..??, suggestions welcomed.

Anyway, the files I played with are all found in /usr/share/themes/jolla-ambient/meegotouch/icons

• graphic-background.png
• graphic-gradient-corner.png
• graphic-gradient-edge.png
• graphic-gradient-home-bottom.png
• graphic-gradient-home-top.png
• graphic-shader-texture.png
• graphic-system-gradient.png
• graphic-texture-pyramid-diffuse.png
• graphic-wallpaper-dimmer.png

All I did was to chmod each file and then rename using '.old' as the extension.
I am aware that the way I edit/rename files is perhaps not the way others do it, but it works for me until I learn to use 'nano' or 'vi'.

Renaming the above files was purely an experiment to see the outcome, the effects might not suit everyone, but for me with fairly crap eyesight, I now find the Jolla screen looks sharper in general and the phone even feels a little faster to operate - YMMV.

The other file,(main.qml - found in /usr/share/lipstick-jolla-home-qt5) as discussed earlier in the thread, I'm still playing with. The outcome so far, is not what I expected but it did remove the black background of launcher but left the ambience static and very heavily obscured - this is as far as I have played with this file (I have already crashed the phone once today, doh!)

Please note: I guess some will not see this post as a list of tweaks and I would be inclined to agree, suggestions to change/move the post are welcomed. :)

Regards,

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Thanks. I've no idea where the best place is, and how useful the information is - aside from listing what affects what.

It's just that I think if and as people look to customise, following those who've blazed the trail is easier than hacking your way through the forest again from scratch. :)

I am aware though, how much of pain self-documentation is though, when trying this stuff - I've forgotten most of my laptop's customisations now, and couldn't get a new one to the same configuration. :confused:

I can't really afford to hack my phone too much - losing it for a week or two earlier was a real pain. I am hoping to get a tablet though and may well consider that more "expendable" in terms of potential time lost re-flashing.

That said, once my current work project has finished, I will be installing the developer kit, so may get some mileage out of that.

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It's not really a problem since as long as you hack simple things like UI you cannot really botch it whatever you do, you can always restore things like thy were under 60 seconds if you totally mess it up.

Here's how to do that;

1.) Always tweak the device by ssh'ing to it, not from fingerterm. Then it does not matter if you break the UI. I use WLAN myself but of course you could ssh in via USB if that's your thing.

2.) Always take backups of the files you modify.

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Hmmm, makes sense, thank you.
Might have to try it, then. :)

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Hey guys,

despite good previous advice, an abundance of confidence crept in, thought I knew what I was doing and now have made 'main.qml' in 'lipstick-jolla-home-qt5' - corrupt!, doh!, my fault (trying to get the hang of Vim!) <------failed miserably! :D

Could someone be kind enough to send me a copy of `main.qml` found in `/usr/share/ lipstick-jolla-home-qt5` ( I imagine that the new file should NOT be patched by Patchmanager - I'm not using patchmanager).

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

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Here you go. Zipped due to TMO uploader's silly restrictions.

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Thank you very much, Pichlo, much appreciated and a lesson learned!! :D

Jolla restored!

Regards,

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(Talking about this post.)

For anyone interested, I finally got around packing it up as a neat RPM. Here comes my first "official" Sailfish patch. I decided to take it easy and make my debut absolutely basic :)

https://openrepos.net/content/pichlo...-date-one-line

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

How about a tweak to maximize homescreen folder view to bottom of the screen and make "Drop icon here to remove it from folder" appear over header or just disable footer altogether, and drop icons to the header area to remove them from folder?

Re: Sailfish Tweaks
 

try this one: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=412

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I accidently deleted Launcher.qml file from /usr/share/lipstick-jolla-home-qt5/launcher, can somebody with latest 1.1.2.15 opt-in post the unpatched original file here! Please help, i don't want to reinstall everything!

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Thanks a lot!

Must read the file name before deleteing, not trusting the muscle memory, haha.


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