Thanks for shipping the latest Android and One UI upgrade.
(a) The desktops feature is nice (it took PC's decades to come up with it) yet I would like to turn it off โ I have no use for it in my workflows and with all apps under one desktop, which is what I get, the desktop entity is just visual overhead for me, and also makes the throwing out of app windows (closing them) require more nuance than previously being able to just swipe an app to close it.
Is there an option to not have all apps open into a "desktop"?
(b) In addition I notice, maybe it's not new (?!) that swiping from the bottom for the bottom floating bar, and swiping from the top for the quick actions and notification drop down (or whatever it is called, sorry) have this distraction feature โ
(c) If the underlying open app is scroll oriented, then the swipe motion is dispatched to both that app and the "desktop" overlay so that in about half of the cases I both get the desktop element (the bottom bar or the top widget) but also the underlying app scrolls along with it.
I feel quite more distracted and less productive with these behaviors โ solving them would be valuable for a proper app switching exprience.
(d) It's still kind of missing IMHO, having an option for quick switch to the previous app as one swipe or gesture, is there a way? I'm not sure why the three buttons (back, desktop, recent apps) are either buttons or gestures, rather than providing both types of affordances to opt into even side-by-side. I think there's better productivity to unlock in that area for multiple app workflows.
(e) Why not introduce more fluency in app opening in the form of letting a long press pre-determine the app window size to full screen? with the new UI there's too much fiddling the size between "window" size and legacy full screen size, which shouldn't be, it's not a good idea to mimic PC ideas about memory sizing IMO.
Yes, I realize that we can use split display (if still allowed within the new Desktops framework) to side-step some of those, but on a 10.9" size that's not always desireable, and with so many different features it's just way too confusing now to size things, while the settings options for them are sprinkled around without much unison for their co-navigation.
Thanks for your guidance on any of the items for getting productivity elevated back to the pre-upgrade levels within the framework of the new feature sprawl.
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In terms of the UI product team, I just think it needs to reach more cohesion in terms of how a person navigates the options and optimally IMHO, to preserve simple workflows which predated the desktops feature. Less fancy names for features and more fluency in how to change their settings, more immediate knobs for reaching the settings view for them, etc. for as much as I didn't just miss existing affordances to that.
