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Originally Posted by bigmoney
I was not asking "something special", and I at least tried to be polite and contribute the way I can (since I can't code for the project, I thought the team would appreciate to see some money showing up in their paypal account). I didn't say I was demanding a fix, saying the software is crap without those features or anything (that would deserve the kind of answer I got),
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As you may have guessed by now, that seems to be a matter of opinion.
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I just politely asked for a workaround.
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"Workaround" is a term used for bugs, and not for missing desired features.
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Who knows, maybe someone could say "hey, you can get a much faster boot by doing this and that" or "you can lock the screen by pressing this and that button as well". I was just wondering. There's no such info in the user guide but who knows, documentation in OSS projects may be out of date (and I can help with that, sure). I am new to OI and was just trying to get some info.
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I am very sorry if you took my comment as being too harsh. I was just trying to see things from the developers point of view. I think that most developers are working on the OpenInkPot project in their "free" time, and it seems some people disregard that when asking for features that may not be desired by the user community as a whole. If you read the developers section on the OpenInkPot web site, you can see some of your questions were already under consideration there, and are being prioritized for future releases.
http://openinkpot.org/report
As for slow boot time, just do not shut down, and then you do not have to wait for the boot time. As an added plus, your battery will also last longer. I think that I recall that your other "issues" are already in the ticket system and development schedule.
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Originally Posted by bigmoney
Might be because English is not my first language, but what do you mean with "asking for a free ride" exactly?
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Again, I am sorry that may have sounded too harsh. It simply means asking for something without offering anything in return. I am sure that all of us who care about OpenInkPot have made financial contributions, but the stated purpose of financial contributions is to support new new hardware, so IMHO financial contributions do not entitle us to ask the developers for new features outside the bug reporting system.