On Jan 24, 6:39 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps nobody in the community has stepped up to write an implementation. > > Perhaps somebody in the community has written one, but it's a patch > somewhere inside Gerrit and hasn't been approved yet. > > Perhaps somebody in the community has written one, but it's a patch > somewhere inside Gerrit which, while approved, has not been reflected on > any public status page.
Okay? That's...um...great? I don't exactly care, you see, I'm just one of those stupid end-users who wants an operating system that came pre- installed on my G1 to work. Yes, it's "free and open source" and developed by a community of people as opposed to a corporation with a tech support department, but if it's trying to cater to more than just people who coded it, then please don't ask end users to learn advanced C++ and code their own patches. Or at least tell them where they should be asking for things like this instead, because there doesn't seem to be any other place to get the Android team's attention. Just because I'm technically minded enough to press Control-Alt-Delete and know what I'm doing doesn't make me a developer. Speaking of which... Mike Hearn wrote: >The problem is that if you go the route of a button to work around >bugs in apps, then pretty soon you'll have 50 buttons, all of which >require a PhD in Androidology to understand, and the apps will still >be buggy. Open task manager. Select application. Force quit. Three buttons, all of which require a Ph.D. in Having Fingers to push. It's also a fairly basic function in any operating system that allows two applications to run at the same time, which can cause all sorts of problems depending on incredibly predictable factors, such as the weather, and the precise temperature to 14 decimal points at which Richard Stallman's blood will be the next time somebody doesn't precede "Linux" with "Guh- noo slash". In other words, it would be quite useful when it's necessary, and not very difficult to use if implemented correctly. In a perfect world, all apps would have zero bugs and play nice with one another, but when the choice is between rebooting my phone or waiting for the battery to die under the load of 48 instances of "while (true) useCPU(a lot);", I'd much rather there be a third choice of not losing the lengthy email I was just typing, thank you very much. Apologies if my tone seems bitter, but I'm kind of annoyed by the level of customer support for this OS. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
