I agree that LMT being open source would be neat, but some of these dudes don't know what they're saying. For one, if LMT was open source and people forked it with a bunch of bloat, you could just avoid the bloated ones and go for the ones that publish their source code and do LMT in the way that most fits what you believe LMT should be like. Like custom ROMs, for example. There are some ROMs I know I'd avoid at all costs, while others I believe in their development philosophy as well as love reading how elegant their code is.
LMT is the only gesture navigation with something like Pie Pointer. In the right hands, it could be improved. Heck, if LMT was open source we'd be able to just submit pull requests with our improved code and noname could add it in if he agrees on it being good. For example, triggering Pie Pointer from an ISA just flat out doesn't work. That can be fixed. Also,
this issue has been there forever.
And if noname uses GitHub release tags, we could make a simple Telegram channel that gives us update notifications when LMT is updated (I've tried before to make a channel that checks the OP for changed text, but that failed miserably).
Plus we could probably have LMT's notifications actually using what's been available for the past, what, 5 years? Notification access rather than accessibility. And maybe the ability to drag the pie to other sides of the screen rather than going into the settings every time (for example if you wanted to move your pie from the right side to bottom real fast).
So yeah, LMT being open source would open up
so much potential and give us LMT fans some
real input on the navigation replacement we've come to know and love.