Notices

The lock screen on Jolla is ill suited for anything serious like e.g. news that takes more than a split second to read. The reason being that the lock screen times out too soon. The weather widget is just about at the edge of usability. Now because Sailfish does not have the concept of a desktop, the only place left is the home screen. Unfortunately that has its own drawbacks: as mentioned above, as well as the fact that home screen covers move around willy-nilly and you can't pin them.

Displaying a lot of info in a small space is possible if you do it properly. But yeah, no or very little text. Pictograms only, with only a few letters and/or numbers. An excellent example of how it should be done is the Foreca weather widget on the N900. There are other weather widgets but none of them comes close. Sailfish covers are a nice idea in theory, but they waste so much space that they are next to useless. Using the same example of a weather widget, all weather apps I tried on Sailfish show the weather info for only one day in their cover - in a space four times larger than the Foreca widget uses to display the weather info for five days.