@vince-vs said in Focal/20.04 is out for quite a while now. You still use Xenial/16.04? I would like to know what stops you from upgrading?:
It's the whole result that doesn't suit me, even though we're on ota-4 focal.
Why is that?
So far I can see three issues, that for you make focal "not suiting you":
- led not working
- sound sometimes missing in video recording
- no full translation
Regarding 1., we should really get the devices page amended, so it reflects the current not-working state. To be honest, even if the led works, on the OP5T I hardly see it. Its so tiny. So I don't rely on it on this device, although I wish it would be better. It was of much more use on my Xperia X and I did rely on it a lot there. And I do fully understand and accept that your feelings here are different.
Regarding 2, I agree, very annoying to do a recording of your daughters flute play to find out later it's without sound. But it is being worked on and we have workarounds. Definitely not good for sure. Not sure though we can make the devices page reflect this.
Regarding 3, I can only repeat: Xenial had OTA's without full translation. Some languages have never ever been fully translated. They never ever saw an OTA with full translation, not on Xenial, not on Focal.
It works like this: There is a code freeze, an OTA is build and released, then changes in code and updates of translations come in until the next freeze for the next OTA. And so on. So it simply depends if between two OTA's there are new strings added (by new features) and when updates for translations for them get merged into the repositories.
The last Xenial OTAs where mainly bug fixes. So no new features, no new strings. No surprise to have static, but full translations. With focal we get new features. New features mean new words. Some get translated before the freeze, some only for the next OTA and some languages never get translated.
Of course there are also bugs, and I think focal did introduced maybe a few, where the ability of being translatable of a few strings got lost. That needs fixing, of course. But it has been the same with Xenial too. I myself did make some strings translatable in a few apps there. That I honestly believe can't be counted as "bad spot" of focal.
But thanks for sharing your thoughts. That's what this post is about. And if we get the devices page updated, this is an improvement.