New People Hub redesign with smaller fonts.
Signal strength, data connection, Wi-Fi, Battery, Location and more all remain on the screen they no longer auto-hide. This is a user option, found under Settings > Sync My Settings > Theme, and it can be disabled should you want to keep them separated.įinally, here are few other notable but small changes in Windows Phone 8.1 Once chosen, within 30 seconds to a few minutes your PC and all Microsoft linked devices will all change their Accent colors, as well. The process is fantastic and works when you choose an Accent color under Settings > Start + Theme. Speaking of Accents, if you’re running Windows 8.1 on your Surface or PC, your Accent theme color can now sync between your Phone and that device. Unfortunately, Microsoft has not given users a color selector for Accents, so that is one area where I would like to see improvement. If you don’t like the new background image, you can still choose from one of 20 colors for the system Accent. Heck, you could even make a background of a solid gradient color and use that. Users can choose from a loaded library of 41 images from Microsoft, or they could choose photos from their Camera library, Saved library, OneDrive or even Facebook. Microsoft once again has chosen a different path, and while not everyone may like it, I think many will appreciate the feature once they find that one right photo. That may cause some confusion amongst users, at least initially, but I think developers will adjust their apps going forward. If the user chooses Iconic and it’s pinned, within a few minutes the Tile will update with the transparent background effect. The effect can be seen within our own WPCentral app, where we let the user choose between an Iconic or Flip design for their Live Tile. As a result, some apps will have a ‘see through’ ability with the new background images, while others will remain a solid, preselected color e.g. If the tile uses a ‘Flip layout’, any area of the background that is transparent will show the background image. How it works is if an app uses the ‘Iconic design’ for its Live Tile, it will show the image behind it.
0 kommentar(er)
