FeedingIt

Just posted a little video preview of the new interface based on Qml:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CklTxg187DU
It’s still in quite an early stage, with a few known issues (mainly strange caching behaviour), and a lot of polishing to do. But it’s been quite an interesting experiment.

For those who would like to try it themselves (usual extras-devel caution applies, times 5 as it’s not even there!), the 0.9beta package is available at: https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=1202
Note that you need to have PR1.3, and install manually the qt4-declarative-qmlviewer package if you want to use the Qml interface (the usual gtk-based interface is still the default and doesn’t have any extra requirements). This version adds categories, and also fixes a few bugs.
To preview the QML interface, type “FeedingIt qml” on the X-terminal. As usual, feel free to send feedback, comments and even insults my way.

After some very valuable feedback on the talk.maemo.org forums, a few changes have been implemented. There is now a small mode available through the widget settings, which uses a much smaller footprint on the desktop.

Widget Small mode

The large mode remains the same, except there will not be any empty lines at the bottom any more.

Widget Large Mode