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otsaloma
2016-06-19 , 00:24
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Used the tablet for about five days now. Didn't care to read 23 pages, sorry if I repeat something. In summary it's a great purchase, very useful for development, battery life could be a deal-breaker in regular use.
The screen is very good. It's very bright though -- compared to the Jolla phone it looks a lot different, e.g.
the semi-transparent black I use in Poor Maps
looks completely different on the tablet.
It took me while to figure out why, but ambience backgrounds look awful on the tablet, there's awful gradient banding to be seen. Looking at ~/.cache/ambienced/com/jolla/components/bgimages, SFOS seems to generate 341x341 pixel (!) images for app backgrounds. If that's scaled to 2048x2048, it's no wonder there's a lot of gradient banding. I worked around this by running `dconf write /desktop/jolla/background/portrait/app_picture_filename "'/home/nemo/Pictures/...'"` (see
together #11949
for the dconf commands) with a 2048x2048 image. Is this a known bug or should I report it? The problem probably applies to phones as well, but isn't noticeable on such small screens.
Battery life is awfully bad. I don't have experience with other tablets, but I'd expect better.
In development use I can see a lot of icon size, font size, padding and spacing issues in my apps that need fixing. Regarding layouts I don't expect to do much except perhaps switch from list views to grid views like Jolla's settings app, which uses one column on the phone and two columns on the tablet. The bigger keyboard helps when developing something with user input or when needing occasional terminal use. Some of the theming, e.g. Theme.horizontalPageMargin, depend on the screen size, so you can't catch these all testing just with a higher ppi phone. Unfortunately as far as I can tell Jolla hasn't provided any "what's new for developers" type documentation for 2.0, so you just need to look through the Theme constants and try stuff to get things right.
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