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I can't report this issue (some of the “developer options” are too useful to be in that menu) (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by Orisphera@programming.dev to c/android@programming.dev

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The sites I know on the Internet are often bad in some regards. For example, they typically don't have the feature to reply to several items at once or, if it's a video site, watch the video on reverse to see where something is coming from. But perhaps the biggest issue is that I often find that there isn't any place to post something I need to post. This is one of the cases where I faced it

I'm trying to report an issue with AOSP, but I can't select the needed component on their tracker. The issue is as follows:

Title (also in the post title): Some of the “developer options” are too useful to be in that menu

Some of the items in the “Developer options” menu are useful in other contexts, so putting them in it is bad. These are:

Show taps: Useful for screen recording. I don't know what could be the right place for it, but it's definitely not Developer options, since one may want to screen-record playing games on profiles other than Owner. It also allows for quicker diagnosis of some problems
Wi-Fi scan throttling: Allows for more precise location and probably should be in Battery

There also used to be a useful feature called Floating clock, but I think it's better to re-implement it as an option to show seconds in the usual clock in the Date & time menu. This way, the typical use cases would be possible in a more convenient way (although others wouldn't at all)

I suggest that these options be added to more appropriate places. The Developer options menu should still have these options, but with a note saying where they can be found elsewhere

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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

What you describe are feature requests not issues.

The reason you don't find them is simple: many projects don't want q myriad of form based user requests. Depending on the specific project it's either vote based or non existent in my experience.

AOSP as specific example is mainly maintained by Google who are notorious for being very ... Wet in their own ways on how to do feature roadmaps.

I think you're naked by both your life and that of the projects you want to support tougher by thinking about these things as issues. Just a rule of thumb m: it's an issue if it's not working as documented or behaving in a way that can be described in terms of "right" and "wrong", not preference.

Otherwise it's a feature request.

Your points for example are all aimed at quite advanced users. I'm not an AOSP dev but just looking at the way they developed their menus over TR years I'd be surprised if they'd share your evaluation.