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    7 days ago

    You’re supporting diva devs selling out.

    We don’t need GOS to do well. We need a fully open ecosystem for phone operating systems. GOS devs don’t let anyone incorporate their code.

    They also refuse to provide basic functionality like inverted navbar buttons. Because they’re diva devs.

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        6 days ago

        It’s open source, but the license agreement prohibits using it in other projects. You can do it for your own personal builds, but not any published builds.

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          5 days ago

          That’s very false. There are other OSes with GrapheneOS code or forks of GrapheneOS.

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            1 day ago

            Elements of it, perhaps, but things like the sandboxing are explicitly prohibited in other Android ROMs. Otherwise almost all custom ROMs would be using it, or some flavour of it.

            other OSes

            And this terminology kind of tells me you don’t really know the custom ROM scene.

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      5 days ago

      GOS devs don’t let anyone incorporate their code.

      False

      They also refuse to provide basic functionality like inverted navbar buttons.

      This is supported in AOSP now.

      Because they’re diva devs.

      This doesn’t seem like a mature thing to say just because you want to flip buttons and are annoyed that the privacy and security-focused project didn’t add a feature to flip buttons.

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        This is supported in AOSP now.

        No it isn’t. GrapheneOS is directly based on AOSP, so it includes everything AOSP does. GOS devs have made it clear they want you to use gestures, and they only include the navbar at all because it’s still in AOSP.

        Inverted navbar is in wide a range of other AOSP custom ROMs (including LineageOS, which could be confused with pure AOSP), because those developers chose to incorporate it. But it isn’t in AOSP by default.

        This doesn’t seem like a mature thing to say just because you want to flip buttons and are annoyed that the privacy and security-focused project didn’t add a feature to flip buttons.

        It’s an accurate take on their general attitude to polite requests on their github. And the reason the requests are so excessively polite is because people are treading on eggshells due to their diva reputation - albeit, this reputation is somewhat drowned out by their fandom.

        It’s also not mature to downvote people just because you disagree with them.

        And furthermore, the reason I use the navbar is because I want a force close long-press gesture on the back button, so I can more easily close apps and stop their background processes. To me, that’s a fairly important feature for privacy and security. That’s also likely a big reason Google pushed away from that, and to see GOS devs align themselves with Google in such a manner raises my eyebrow against them, at the very least.