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Originally Posted by szopin View Post
You can put whatever you want there
??? You can't "put" anything there; you run apps, and their covers just magically show up somewhere in there without your intervention.

Yes, sure, you can "patch" the system to work differently than this; but that's kind of beside the point.

You can't expect jolla to abandon multitask view
And I don't. I'm just saying that the current multitask view is too limiting; not everything fits cleanly into the "fullscreen + cover" UI idiom. (And of course, there are always dozens of low-level programs running on any Linux machine, which are not given any mention at all in the Sailfish "multitask view". So this is already not a true view of everything running on the device. I don't see why Jolla couldn't keep the existing app mechanism for full-screen apps, and add another for widget-like apps.)

Gave you two examples of covers that update live, while being in low-usage state at the time.
Sure, Jolla apps do (and should!) minimize their activity as much as possible while only showing their cover. But you can't really create an app that is just a cover. (And yeah, the cover UI is so limiting, there really isn't any point to doing something like that anyway...)
 

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