[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] tboy2000:
LONGISH FEEDBACK POST:

Yes R3 is almost perfect for me. Thank you so much!

I can understand the frustration you may have. So many people have their own preferences, wants and desires and I think you have the impossible task to please everyone. You get so many requests from people (myself included). Can you do this Dutty and can you do that? It must give you a headache at times. :) We all want to be pleased.

Here is what I didn't like about the new HTC apps and recent rom updates:

NOTE: This is all my opinion and am not speaking for anyone else.

*New HTC Touch keyboard sucks. There isn't even a PLUS sign to add words to the T9 dictionary. Space bar doesn't always add a space. You have to scan up and down as you enter words as suggested words now appear at top of screen instead of above keyboard as in older version. Thus, you have to stretch your thumb to top of screen to tap on a suggested word. This is more time consuming - especially having to bring up the arrow keys by yet another key press. All this slows down speed entry. I really think the HTC Touch keyboard last used in R3 is the best so far and not the newer one. If it ain't broke don't fix it comes to mind. Sometimes I feel HTC just update things just for the sake of it. Also, I have always thought in general, the enter key needs to be twice the width it currently is just like on all standard keyboards.

*Was not keen on 4 column start menu and could find no way to change to 3 column. When you have category folders or any icons, you don't need so many icons on the screen as it becomes more of a hunting process to find the icon you want. Less is more. Big icons are better. I look at iphones with their masses of icons and pages of icons and ask how on earth do you find what you are looking for easily? Too much hunting. We have a large screen compared to say the HTC Diamond, we don't need loads of icons to clutter and make searching more time consuming. Compared to say 12 icons on a screen to 18+ it is easy to find one icon when you have less icons to look for. This all adds up to efficient and speedy use of rom. R3 has BIG 3 column icons. Lovely!

*MS Keyboard is the fastest entry keyboard. When you enable large keys and gestures, you can enter almost everything. Gestures - such as a swipe to enter caps or a space is what speeds up entry. Am really disappointed HTC have not added gesture support to their keyboards. Imagine the MS keyboard's gestures on the HTC keyboards - that would be fantastic! The last rom you made with MS Keyboard was R3, hence why I reverted to it. Also, using this wonderful app: "nueSIPstylus" http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/nueSIPStylus.aspx whenever my stylus is removed I get the MS keyboard and when it is replaced it shows the HTC keyboard. Auto switch. Again another efficient and 2 less buttons to press to switch keyboards. Dutty look at his apps and tools: http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/Pocket-PC.aspx

*In recent roms, the new Topaz manila start menu was shifted down too much which hid the text of the bottom row of icons. This was not the issue in earlier roms. A frustrating, niggling glitch for me.

*In 2.5 manila, the homepage shortcuts are way too big and prevent more calendar events to be seen. The icons in the new contacts tab again are too big and require an extra screen tap to send a message or call another number compared to manila 2.1. The new music tab is nice with the reflections but the album covers overlap the top bar which look messy. Shame on HTC. I think a good manila would be a made up one: 2.3 - a combo of all the 2.1 tabs but with the new 2.5 calendar and internet tabs. :) I think even when 2.5 becomes stable, it still has that annoying home page and music graphic glitch which would bug me. Oh and the htc keyboard. BTW is their a cab for the old HTC keyboard?

Overall I have tried many roms. I was a davideuck fan for a while and then switched to yours and stuck with them. You have made a lot of users really happy. Myself included.

Thanks for all. I will sit back and read these threads in case one day I will get a surprise.

To community: All my opinions. Capish? :D