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Originally Posted by bluefoot View Post
Also they're making workflow even slower again and the UX even more inconsistent and confused. Why on Cyanogenmod / Android can I just swipe down from status bar at any time for quick settings and settings app. Swipe to notifications, swipe down, very limited toggles, swipe back to home screen, select settings (now hugely diminished in quickness of use). Then a load more taps to even adjust brightness. It's absolutely awful and keeps getting worse.

Glad I've now moved over to my N5 (CM).
Mostly agree.

Shortcuts in the events view is the wrong place to put them. But rather than swiping down to get them from anywhere I'd rather you just tapped the title bar like on the N9. That left swiping down to close as now.

I find the Android 5.x pull down for settings and notifications immensely frustrating.

You pull it down and it shows a fatter status bar with LESS info in than the default. Below that a pile of card based notifications. More often than not, doing this wakes up some app in the background which pops a card right over the top of the status bar.

You then swipe down again to get shortcuts and it adds in a tiny-tiny cog into the status bar to access all settings. That's if it doesn't just bounce back and close on you already. Grrr.

IME 4.x wasn't that bad.

On Sailfish, I noticed that one of the shortcuts I'd like to add is a shortcut to the entire settings app. It's not there.

And if you tap on the mobile data icon in shortcuts, with no SIM card in, the icon will keep on flashing indefinitely rather than time out and/or give an error. I only tapped on it to try and work out what the cryptic icon with no text label was.
 

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