Hi Slava,

 > not my job as a middleware developer to design the UI. But in the end
> when it's decided which settings should be per-SIM and which are global,
> I see ofono which I'm already using and which implements persistent
> per-SIM storage, property change notifications and other niceties and
> wish I could just add a few little properties there.

The problem is, oFono _is_ in the business of dictating the UI.  The 
entire project was built on that premise and with that philosophy in 
mind.  It was also made to integrate nicely with sister projects 
(ConnMan, BlueZ, mmsd).

>
> I thought I suggested a simple, flexible and perfectly backward
> compatible solution which would allow to avoid both a) unnecessary
> forking of ofono and b) public arguments about "horrible Android-like
> crap", "you are doing it all wrong", "you don't really need that" and
> such. And yet let people do what they think is right for their own
> project. Doesn't that sound good?

You're free to do what you feel is good for your project, as we are free 
to do what we feel is good for ours.

Regards,
-Denis