[Galaxy Note 3 Android Development] andrewilley:
I've just installed this ROM after two years of using stock KitKat on my rooted Note 3. To be honest, I still prefer KitKat's look & feel to Google's nasty Material Design mess, but there are just too many apps that now need Android 5+ :(

Anyway, install went well and I've got my device working fairly quickly. I do have a few questions though, some of which may be related specifically to this ROM and some to Marshmallow in general so please feel free to point me elsewhere if needed:

1) While away from home I use a swipe pattern to unlock, and while at home I use no unlock method. However waking the phone with the Home or Power keys now brings up an additional (pointless) swipe-to-unlock screen. What I would like is what happened before, i.e. waking goes to the swipe-to-unlock screen (or directly to the home screen when no unlock method is in use).

2) The interface has generally got smaller, and in particular the status bar content is almost too small to read. Any options to change this?

3) Buttons within the pull-down notification panel used to link directly to the various settings pages via a long-press, how do I re-enable that? (e.g. long-pressing on the Wi-Fi or Bluetooth icons in the Notification pull-down would go straight to the relevant options page to choose a local connection).

4) How do I change the functionality of the headset buttons on my three-button Samsung headset back to Next/Prev Track? What I want to do is set the +/-

buttons on the headset to trigger MEDIA_PREVIOUS and MEDIA_NEXT events, while leaving the phone's own volume keys as regular volume controls. Previously on my KitKat ROM, I just edited a couple of lines in the generic.kl root keymap file, but editing the same file on this new ROM changes both of the functions together (so both the headset AND on-phone buttons become track controls, and I have no volume control). I've tried Xposed Additions, but that seems to link both sets of buttons too.

5) Any suggestions for the best way to get rid of the daft Recent Apps functionality that Google has forced onto the Menu key? I want the capacitive Menu button to act as a proper damned Menu button like God intended :), leaving a long-press on the Home button to provide the less regularly-used recent apps list. (Any way to make that lsit back into a tidy vertically scrollable format by the way, that rotating page-flippy thing is horrible).

6) Some device notifications are being merged into a single Status Bar icon which I would always want to see as a separately visible item - such as 'VPN Active' status for example. I think this is something I probably chose wrong in the Aroma installer from looking through this thread. Can I just re-run the main ZIP file in TWRP again and select a different choice (without needing to wipe the rest of the system again) or is there a stand-alone solution?

7) Camera: preview view when taking photos is significantly cropped compared to the resulting image (perhaps around 50% cropped?) making it impossible to work out the exact framing of the photo before you take it. I have it set to maximum rez 16:9 images.

There are other things, but this post is getting long enough as it is! Many thanks for any guidance the experts here can give me.

Andre