Do you not "peek"? I use that feature all the time, and it hasn't changed since v1.X - IMO it's one of the nicest small features of SFOS that really makes it stand out.

Most of the time I'm using the phone I'm scrolling through content (in a browser, or an app like SailHN/Quickddit/Tidings) so my thumb is on the screen anyway.

I don't need the status indicators all the time and prefer to use the whole screen for content I'm reading, "peeking" lets me see that info quickly when I need it and at the same time reinforces the fact that apps run in the background.

Totally different to Android where apps get put in deep freeze as soon as they are off screen (with a few exceptions via a specific API).

Anyway, I seem to be one of the few people who actually likes SFOS and the recent UI changes. 1.1.9 was a great improvement with events view and 2.0 seals the deal for me, I always felt a quick settings drawer was missing and now we have one (quite flexible too!).

Now I'm hoping Jolla can roll out some under the bonnet improvements to XMPP and other bits without people moaning about the "lack of progress" (normally judged on visible UI changes).

BTW, I'm one of the peopld who doesn't use Alien Dalvik, but can we please stop the moaning about Jolla "spending all their time on Android stuff". I don't think it's true (hint: number of words in changelog doesn't necessarily correlate with development time).

CalDAV is working OK for me at the moment but I'll be interested to see what happens this weekend when the clocks go back 1h in the UK. My server is in the same timezone so hopefully I'll be fine!