[G1 Android Development] zimphishmonger:
Wanted to clarify a few things...I think a lot of people are misunderstanding what OpenEclair , a "community based rom" is suppose to be about. It is not based on what the community wants....it is a community of DEVELOPERS working together on one build. If the former were true, the build would NEVER be stable and working, cause most of this "community" demands everything yet contributes very little (hence the CONSTANT requests for overclocking, ram hack, no ram hack, livewallpapers, x feature, y feature, removal of x feature, etc) without letting all the kinks get worked out. Devs just dont have the time of the patience to deal w/ it. Thats why OE has a forum support team, because the devs simply cannot handle all the demands being placed on them.

The reason multiple eclair builds exist is because the community demands different features, and that is certainly a positive. However, I do not believe OpenEclair was ever meant to be the "end all,be-all" of Eclair builds. That is what differenciates Android from the iPhone, the fact that you can CHOOSE which build to run. Want LiveWallpaper, Run Hero_Over or King, but then you cannot complain that Hero_Over is a dead project, etc

There are numerous aesthetic differences in Eclair that are both under the hood, and on the surface, but Eclair has never been OFFICIALLY released for this hardware. The fact that HTC and Google are even considering releasing an official eclair build for 1+ year old devices (Mt3g and G1) is a gift, and I think everyone in the XDA "community" have gotten greedy with our hacked features and tweaks, and "demands" such updates. Google could have left the G1\MT3G at 1.6 and been done w/ it, but they didnt.....They are preparing an OTA update for eclair for dated devices, but we shouldn't blame them when some of their higher end features dont work well on such devices (Why would anyone upgrade their phone then, what benefit would it be to them to develop higher-powered devices such as the Nexus)

Sure, we all want a prettier Android, but LiveWallpaper is

certainly

not the only benefit. Personally, some of the smallest under-appreciated benefits of Eclair are the most significant (Settings menu has been massively improved, user settings backed up to gmail account, animated boot screens, multiple gmail accounts natively, facebook sync w/ contacts, animated lock screen, etc).

My point is further reinforced by Google decision to leave out the 3d app drawer and home screen navigation developed for Nexus, our older devices just cannot handle it, as those features were SPECIFICALLY developed for the Nexus and future devices in mind.

Overall point: Take what you are given, and dont be too greedy. Most phones dont get updated by the software developer well over a year after release, yet we are getting one (soon enough hopefully :D). So a few features are missing, but the bulk of the update works, and will eventually work quite well. Gives you a reason to buy a Nexus or one of the many new android being released with a snapdragon CPUs in the next few months.

EDIT: Chris has fixed LWP for the next release, so no more requests for it. My opinion still stands (above)

Phishmonger out!