[Xiaomi Mi 9 ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Other Dev] vince31fr:
First thanks for your previous post, more detailed than our own instructions ;)

A few answers:

I don't exactly understand what you mean. It's already possible to disable sound/vibrator for all kind of notifications (Disable interruptions in per-app notification control, ...).

AI button is remaped to browser. If you want something else, you can play with /system/usr/keylayout/gpio-keys.kl

Maybe we could make an UI to remap it in the settings, but this is not in our immediate plans.

There are probably good ideas/code to borrow from GrapheneOS, right. But we are very cautious in the way we modify LineageOS sources: we don't want to compromise its stability; and from past experience, I think that it often happens that too heavily modified custom roms get into troubles. So we go forward in this kind of stuff very slowly. And we are also more concentrated on our own apps, the blocker, and another one to come.

It already exists for phones that don't have a notch, as it is centered. We actually don't want to play with the statusbar layout: it's too easy to completely break it, and too time-consuming to properly integrate changes. As already said, we are cautious wrt modifying original lineage.

We want to offer the same experience on all the phones we support, and GCam is not available for all. Also, we cannot provide a degoogled OS with a Google app preinstalled :) We however included support for multi-objectives cameras for GCam and OpenCamera.

There is plenty of choice on https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/. I personnaly use Urnyx05 port ;)

Osmand is a very good app, but too complex for users that just want an easy GPS nav app. Also, ME provides real-time trafic information. And as far as we know, it has a very privacy-friendly policy.

I find this strange. No one ever reported stability issues in this thread and the previous one, and I don't experience such problems myself. I even tried 500px, no problem in switching between dozens of pictures in full screen... Maybe there's something wrong in your system.

I cannot tell when the next update will be. We plan to provide at least one update each month, sometimes more often, maybe sometimes less. A little delay wrt AOSP monthly security updates is not such a big problem. We are more driven by novelty, important updates like the last one (microG version). We don't go very fast and don't introduce new features very often, but we make a rom for people that want a stable privacy-friendly degoogled daily-driver for their phone. If you prefer a rom with tons of new features and options each week, you have plenty of choice ;)

For mi9 I'm actually more concentrated on under-the-hood changes, like pushing the kernel to its last stable version (actually testing it). The next update will maybe also include our next app (don't expect too much of it in terms of practical interest, but we thought useful to make it), but no other crisp novelty. Changes on the blocker are planned for the upcoming months but probably not for the next update. We have also been more occupied by supporting more phones (and a new one will probably come soon).

You're welcome!