On Aug 12, 10:00 am, Romain Guy <[email protected]> wrote: > David had long discussions directly with the media team and myself by > email about his patch. Last time I checked his work the UI he was > proposing was still not acceptable for inclusion in the platform.
That's good to hear that his work didn't go completely unrecognized. According to Gerrit there's no comments or criticisms on his most recent submissions, so it looks to others who don't spy on your private emails like his submission is being ignored after he fixed it up from its first crude implementation. > > It seems you don't understand. The entire ecosystem is being strangled > > by this. It's not a nice to have feature. It seems like if someone > > over there did understand, this would be a feature in Donut. If you've > > starred the feature request in the bug database you'd understand how > > angry people are about this. But I don't think anybody is even > > notified when people post "Wow! I am getting way too much email from > > having this issue starred, so I'm unstarring it". > > Wanting this feature does not mean we will add it at this point of the > development process. The same applies to all of the features the core > Android team would like to add and know would be enjoyed by many. In > this particular case, and I talked briefly with the author about it, > we also need to take into account the binary size of this feature (at > least if you guys want the final build to fit on an HTC Dream/T-Mobile > G1), the added dependency (new library) and the extra QA. This just > cannot happen for Donut. We also need to see if it's something that > makes sense to support in Android. Yes this issue was starred by 80 > people. But this number is (unfortunately) dwarfed by the number of > users of Android and we need to question the fact whether this feature > would be used by enough people to warrant its inclusion. That's true > of all features we include. Now in this particular case an Android > engineer has been actively participating on the bug report and even > took measure of the impact on batter life. Not having this feature in > Donut is not a question of us ignoring it, it's just about the fact > that it's too late in the development cycle. Period. You are responding to the wrong feature here. This was about apps on SD card. And you really don't need to repeat yourself, yes there is a development cycle. We don't know what it is, but we understand it exists. The only point I'm trying to make is that at this point really the community has no way of getting our ideas implemented in this product on our own, so we require some understanding from Google that this is a product just like every other product. And in most cases developing products, companies care about user feedback. So the feedback is that Apps on SD *should* have been a priority in Donut (doing pattern recognition on the touchscreen is more important?). We understand that as of today this is not possible. So the feedback is this feature should be in the next release that it *possibly* can be. Now you can feel free to say "It's our product, and we'll do whatever we want with it, and we disagree with your opinion, go away." -E --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
