[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iH8ra!n:
Hello!

I'm a CyanogenMod user since a long time now and although I really love this ROM and appreciate how much effort the team from Cyanogen Inc. and all the contributors are investing to make this ROM perfectly stable and tuned so that it runs much better than Stock Vanilla Android.

I too like that there were very few - if any - customization of the overall User Interface, but still love the really useful features which got added to AOSP.

Anyway, there's one reason why I sometimes switch to ParanoidAndroid for a short period of time:

Firstly, I always choose this one as this is the second most popular Custom ROM out there, and AOKP or similar ROMs to AOKP have just too much features and customization options that I wouldn't really play with.

Secondarily - but mainly - because although it's not that customizable like AOKP (and such), it still has these one, two, three, or even four features that are giving me this excitement and "WOW!"-feeling because of really running something (with) MUCH more useful (features) than AOSP, like QuickSettings 3+ (actual version is 3.1), HALO, PIE, Hybrid (sorted by the importance and usefulness for me). [NOTE: the named ones after QS are not (yet) in the latest version (4+) but were back in good old 3+.]

If PA would still be based on CM but "just" with the above named features added to it, it'd be the ROM I use as my daily driver, but sadly, it isn't anymore.

If I then go into the (Original-) Android Development section(s) here at XDA Devs, I always find some ROMs which are based on CM11, have HALO and sometimes even QS3+ built-in ... but also much more (IMO unnecessary features and tunings) - so much that in the end I don't even flash it and test it...

So:

I want to make ROM that's based on CyanogenMod's latest version (11.0 ATM), but also has PA's HALO - always in its latest version - and PA's QuickSettings - of course also always in its latest version - built in - but: NOTHING MORE!

Also some little gimmicks from OmniROM like Lockscreen Blur/Notifications - if they'll ever get introduced into it after months of code review - and Smart Pulldown shouldn't be missing - but really: NOT TOO MUCH AND TOO GIMMICKY! CyanogenMod with more nice and really useful features added, but it should not end like TouchWiz compared to Stock Vanilla Android, like some other ROMs do... and we just saw what this leads to! ;)

There's just two things why I don't do it:

1.) I can't do it, as I do not have enough (coding?!) skills to merge the commits (links down below) properly into my CM build setup and clean up merge's remains.

2.) I believe I can't do it on my own as I always want the ROM to be on CM's latest base like its nightlies are, but still have to see that those new commits are not conflicting with PA's features' commits. And that probably half a week...

SO:

Is there anybody out there reading this post and saying: "Nice idea! And I too have the necessary skills to realize it. Let's do it!" :confused:

If so, please contact me via PM! if you have any major doubts about this 'plan' please comment down below!

Thanks for any useful tips, comments and THANK YOU (!!!) who is willing and able to help me!

Cheers

COMMITS:

HALO: https://gerrit.paranoidandroid.co/#/c/244/ (Base)

https://gerrit.paranoidandroid.co/#/c/239/ (Settings)

QuickSettings 3+: https://gerrit.paranoidandroid.co/#/c/3569/ (3.1) (frameworks/base; no settings needed as configurable at drop-down)

[https://gerrit.paranoidandroid.co/#/c/500/ (3.0) if needed]

Lockscreen Blur: https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/4903/ (Base)

https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/4702/ (Settings)

Smart Pulldown: https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/5034/ (Base)

https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/5035/ (Settings ["OmniGears" is a part of them])

https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/5187/ (important fix)

Lockscreen Notifications: https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/4349/ (Base)

https://gerrit.omnirom.org/#/c/4379/ (Settings)