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grog 2010-09-10 18:18

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Twidi (Post 811997)
i personaly have no problem with git on my n900, and sometimes i use it to commit !

I also have no problems now :cool:. After some poking around I discovered that installing the 'git' package did not also install the required 'git-core'. I manually installed 'git-core' & now it works fine.

Twidi 2010-09-12 22:31

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
The new version is here !

Here is the commit message as visible on github :

GRead fully rewritten (Except ui which is exactly the same) :

Important things :
  • the engine can manage many accounts (not used in the ui !)
  • not a lot of works for the engine to work with something else than libgreader (we can imagine an account with rss feeds managed locally)
  • better operation system with many spools (content, action...) and each with many threads
  • better management of network latencies
  • pseudo-offline capabilities : sync must be done online and then the application can be used offline (unread items are loaded, 100 by label or by feed without labels)
  • can handle feeds which are not labelled
  • many view rendering could be created, currently only one "maemo5", an hybrid renderer which works on linux too (or other system with QT)

Future :
  • add more shortcuts
  • save some settings per feed (default show unread/all)
  • load images in background
  • handle real offline mode, with local storage (actually all content is in memory)
  • fully rewrite the ui to have a really beautiful one (just saw the NewsRack application for iphone... WOW !)
  • manage multi-accounts in the ui
  • and so on :)

fpp 2010-09-13 11:23

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Good job, testing right away...

fpp 2010-09-13 12:28

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Well, unfortunately that was very quick :

Quote:

Docs/DropN900/N900/gread2/src $ python gread.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "gread.py", line 17, in <module>
controller.run()
File "/home/user/MyDocs/DropN900/N900/gread2/src/views/maemo5/controller.py", line 68, in run
self.itemview_view = ItemViewView(controller=self)
File "/home/user/MyDocs/DropN900/N900/gread2/src/views/maemo5/itemview.py", line 73, in __init__
if MAEMO5_ZOOMKEYS:
NameError: global name 'MAEMO5_ZOOMKEYS' is not defined

Tranquility 2010-09-13 12:47

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
I got the same error.... maybe now we will find out why the zoom wasnt working before.

Twidi 2010-09-13 13:58

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
I really don't understand why because it work's fine for me !!
I can easily bypass the error but don't know how to make theses buttons work for you...
I'll make a new update this evening with a patch for this, and better orientation support (and i'll add a few keyboard shortcuts)

Thanks for the report !

fpp 2010-09-13 15:00

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
No problem... right now I prefer a working GReader without the keys (like the previous) one... than the opposite :-)

Twidi 2010-09-13 15:19

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
It will :) I just cannot work on it right now. And i will add a write on stderr for the exception raised when the zoomkeys cannot be loaded, then you could tell me more :)

PS : It's "GRead" :)

fpp 2010-09-13 16:21

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Ooops sorry :-)

Do you hope to get rich with this ? It sounds like "Greed" :-)

Twidi 2010-09-13 17:24

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Greed is the name of a Google Reader application for Android :)

I updated the application on Github.

The main thing is that now there is no more "auto-rotation" feature. For two reasons :
  • the auto-rotation is too "sensitive" (what's the correct english word for the french "sensible" in this context?)
  • keep portrait-mode between windows in multi-stacked-windows application is too hacky, i made a ugly hack for this to work in the previous version but were was some bad glitches.

So it's removed BUT in each window you have two buttons in the menu "landscape" or "portrait". You can choose the default one in the settings

For the "ZOOMKEYS" problem, the bug must be corrected and then you have an error displayed in the terminal when GRead is not able to load the zoomkeys.so

Search for "ZOOMKEYS ERROR" on your terminal (i suggest you to wait after the sync is done because a lot of information are displayed on the terminal during the sync !)

If you can copy/paste here the ZOOMEKEYS ERROR line, it will be helpfull

grog 2010-09-13 17:37

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Twidi (Post 815039)
If you can copy/paste here the ZOOMEKEYS ERROR line, it will be helpfull

Code:

$ python ./GRead/src/gread.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./GRead/src/gread.py", line 7, in <module>
    from views.maemo5.controller import Controller
  File "/home/user/MyDocs/Gread/src/views/maemo5/controller.py", line 15, in <module>
    from views.maemo5.itemview import ItemViewView
  File "/home/user/MyDocs/Gread/src/views/maemo5/itemview.py", line 19, in <module>
    sys.stderr.write("ZOOMKEYS ERROR : %s" % e)
NameError: name 'sys' is not defined

HTH

fpp 2010-09-13 17:43

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
That one looks easy to solve :-)

Twidi 2010-09-13 18:32

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
argh so sorry ! i'll correct it just now on the train, with my n900 of course.

Twidi 2010-09-13 18:34

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
it was sone before my message was posted here... thanks to 2G :)

you can try again if you want :)

fpp 2010-09-13 20:27

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
OK it works now, here is the exception trapped at startup :

Quote:

MyDocs/DropN900/N900/gread2/src $ py gread.py
ZOOMKEYS ERROR : /home/user/MyDocs/DropN900/N900/gread2/src/views/maemo5/utils/zoomkeys.so: failed to map segment from shared object: Operation not permitted[op-error]

grog 2010-09-13 20:31

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815199)
OK it works now, here is the exception trapped at startup :

Same error here

Twidi 2010-09-13 20:56

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Ouch, not so trivial !

Could you please try to "install" GRead inside /opt in a tmp directory (not GRead, try "GRead-dev") and run it from here :
  • from where you want by launching "/opt/GRead-dev/src/gread.py"
  • from the src directory itself by launching "./gread.py"

Thanks for your help !

PS : don't copy from your "MyDocs" directory, some permissions may not be goot

(i know you might be root to do so but it's the only for me to know if it's what i think)

Tranquility 2010-09-13 21:30

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Great, after starting it out of /opt everything works as expected.
But I just cloned the git repo. So the the directory name is GRead.

Twidi 2010-09-13 21:49

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Ok great !! Maybe when GRead will be installable from extra-devel you should delete your directory before

But is great ! Now i know we can't call .so file from "noexec" partitions :)

Twidi 2010-09-13 23:37

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
I just made some UI enhancement in lists :
  • no more horizontal scroll
  • each titles can be displayed on two lines if needed
  • in main label/feeds list, the unread count is in reversed colors, and the feed title can not be printed over it
  • in items lists for special feeds/labels, the label name is now right aligned (to let the item's title use two lines if needed), and is displayed in reversed colors

It looks really better with these little improvements. I hope you'll like it.

Twidi 2010-09-13 23:46

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
A screenshot of the last version (clic to see full size):

http://twitpic.com/show/thumb/2o71l5.png

fpp 2010-09-14 12:02

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Aha, so it works now... :-)

Actually it's not even necessary to "install" it to /opt as root, putting it in /home/user works just as well, we just need a Linux fs where files can be executed...

The new UI is nice and getting better all the time. The global "all/unread" setting is just great, and the new list views are nice too, easy to read.

A few more thoughts on usability though :

I like the post count on each line in the feed view, and the feed name in the "all posts" view. Maybe the visual effect would be nicer if they had a coloured beackground instead of white (like the same blue as the selection bar ?).

Also, there is a lot of width space left on these screens, so there could be a vertical toolbar in the side (like in grr) for the frequently used menu entries (sync, fetch more, mark all read, orientation etc.).

In landscape mode my favourite feature is keyboard navigation, but it's not all there yet. It's nice to be able to scroll through the lists with the arrows, select with Enter and go back with Backspace. But when you switch from feeds list to posts list this way, the new list doesn't have focus so you can't immediately scroll or select something with the keyboard.

And when you get to the post view, there is no in-page navigation any more. It would be good to be able to scroll up & down the page with arrows and/or space bar like in browsers.

Still about post view :

- I still can't stand that scrolling "marquee" window title :-)
- the in-page additional title is very nice, but it fades a bit fast for me
- when I'm in "all posts" mode (which is almost all the time), I often can't tell which feed the post is from.

So what I'd really like is an option/preference to :

- Put the feed name in the window title
- keep the in-page title as it is, but fixed (non-fading)

Just call it "the Fred mode" :-)

Also, the zoom keys do work (generally) in post view, and that's very useful. However, I find that I almost always zoom in at the start of the session, meaning the default font size is too small for my eyes. It would be nice to also have an option/preference for that...

Too bad about the buggy orientation change... In my own app, I used the same old hack you had in GRead, only instead of the "sleep(2)" between the two commands, I set a QTimer.singleshot with a callback (am I being clear ? :-). Seems to work OK, even if the screen sometimes flickers once after a change. But then it's a lot simpler than GRead...

Anyway, portait mode is not something I'd use much in GRead right now, because of the lack of navigation. To be usable it would really need a few buttons for the basics (again, like in grr). Or am I missing something ?

Thanks for the new version all the same... and looking forward to the next :-)

grog 2010-09-14 15:36

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Twidi (Post 815230)
Could you please try to "install" GRead inside /opt in a tmp directory (not GRead, try "GRead-dev") and run it from here :

PS : don't copy from your "MyDocs" directory, some permissions may not be goot

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
Aha, so it works now... :-)

Actually it's not even necessary to "install" it to /opt as root, putting it in /home/user works just as well, we just need a Linux fs where files can be executed...

Oops, should have thought of that. I put it into the user directory & works fine from there.

Quote:

I like the post count on each line in the feed view, and the feed name in the "all posts" view. Maybe the visual effect would be nicer if they had a coloured beackground instead of white (like the same blue as the selection bar ?).-
I second that. I find the all white makes it hard to see the unread items. Coupled with that the read items still show until I manually refresh, makes reading a little harder.

Quote:

Also, the zoom keys do work (generally) in post view, and that's very useful. However, I find that I almost always zoom in at the start of the session, meaning the default font size is too small for my eyes. It would be nice to also have an option/preference for that...
+1 vote on that.

Quote:

Too bad about the buggy orientation change... In my own app, I used the same old hack you had in GRead, only instead of the "sleep(2)" between the two commands, I set a QTimer.singleshot with a callback (am I being clear ? :-). Seems to work OK, even if the screen sometimes flickers once after a change. But then it's a lot simpler than GRead...

Anyway, portait mode is not something I'd use much in GRead right now, because of the lack of navigation. To be usable it would really need a few buttons for the basics (again, like in grr). Or am I missing something ?
I for one prefer portrait mode over landscape, so I please really hope you get this fixed. :)

Thanks for the app. Really starting to look good.

Frank Banul 2010-09-14 21:29

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Is there a way to view the oldest items at the top? It seems the most recent are at the top in the current implementation.

thanks,
Frank

fwrnando 2010-09-14 23:32

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
I don't know if this was posted before, but here's the way to get an icon for GRead on your menu, just make a gread.desktop in /usr/share/applications/hildon with this as the contents:
Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0.0
Type=Application
Name=GRead
Exec=/usr/bin/python /home/user/.gread/src/gread.py
Icon=grr
X-HildonDesk-ShowInToolbar=true
X-Osso-Type=application/x-executable

Notice I have two things in bold there, for the first one, you have to have where you got the files you cloned from the git repo (~/.gread/ in my case) and on the second is the icon. (icons are stored in /opt/maemo/usr/share/icons/hicolor, choose one and use just the file name without the extension) (I kept grr installed just to use its icon :P)

also; re: suggestions: +1 for not being able to stand the marquee on the title, I'd love an option to disable it :P

Frank Banul 2010-09-15 00:28

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Feature requests:

I have disabled the timer that scrolls the title in the item view constantly, it's too distracting. Maybe make this a preference?

I have disabled the banner title that scrolls up on view and then is hidden. This is distracting as well. Maybe another preference?

I also reversed the sort order that I requested above.

After these 3 changes (of personal preference), this seems like a pretty sweet application.

thanks,
Frank

Twidi 2010-09-15 02:14

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
I like the post count on each line in the feed view, and the feed name in the "all posts" view. Maybe the visual effect would be nicer if they had a coloured beackground instead of white (like the same blue as the selection bar ?).

i changed this by used highlight colors instead normal colors (before this change i just used the background as foreground and vice-versa)
And an other change : little feed-name at the right are limited to 1/3 of the total length, to let more place for the feed title (and a bug with multi height lines was also resolved)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
Also, there is a lot of width space left on these screens, so there could be a vertical toolbar in the side (like in grr) for the frequently used menu entries (sync, fetch more, mark all read, orientation etc.).

I have not a lot of space, anybody could have long titles...

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
In landscape mode my favourite feature is keyboard navigation, but it's not all there yet. It's nice to be able to scroll through the lists with the arrows, select with Enter and go back with Backspace. But when you switch from feeds list to posts list this way, the new list doesn't have focus so you can't immediately scroll or select something with the keyboard.

Now all list and internal browser should gain focus each time a now content is selected in the previous window.

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
And when you get to the post view, there is no in-page navigation any more. It would be good to be able to scroll up & down the page with arrows and/or space bar like in browsers.

The keyboard shortcuts are not here yet but i know i have this to do :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
- I still can't stand that scrolling "marquee" window title :-)

Thanks to Mavit (someone here ) who made this optional in settings (now available in my version)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
- the in-page additional title is very nice, but it fades a bit fast for me

The delay is a little longer now

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
- when I'm in "all posts" mode (which is almost all the time), I often can't tell which feed the post is from.

With the new limited length of feed titles, it should be better

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
So what I'd really like is an option/preference to :

- Put the feed name in the window title
- keep the in-page title as it is, but fixed (non-fading)

Just call it "the Fred mode" :-)

It could be an idea :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
Also, the zoom keys do work (generally) in post view, and that's very useful. However, I find that I almost always zoom in at the start of the session, meaning the default font size is too small for my eyes. It would be nice to also have an option/preference for that...

I will change the default and add an option in the settings window :) I do the same way each time (zoom at the start of the session)...

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
Too bad about the buggy orientation change... In my own app, I used the same old hack you had in GRead, only instead of the "sleep(2)" between the two commands, I set a QTimer.singleshot with a callback (am I being clear ? :-). Seems to work OK, even if the screen sometimes flickers once after a change. But then it's a lot simpler than GRead...

One day i'll try it again :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 815720)
Anyway, portait mode is not something I'd use much in GRead right now, because of the lack of navigation. To be usable it would really need a few buttons for the basics (again, like in grr). Or am I missing something ?

With the landscape/mode (which replaces the "auto" mode), i really appreciate the portrait mode. It doesn't go back to landscape mode when i don't want so.
And i have no problem with navigation, you have the menu on the title bar with all the options, and the back button on the title to go back. I use GRead this way all the time, in portrait mode (and yes sometimes in landscape with the keyboard)

Notice that you can now switch to the previous/next item directly while viewing an item with two new "furtive" buttons... (but no currently option to fetch more, refresh (etc) in this view)

BTW, Thanks a lot for your report !

Twidi 2010-09-15 02:17

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by grog (Post 815908)
I second that. I find the all white makes it hard to see the unread items. Coupled with that the read items still show until I manually refresh, makes reading a little harder.

There is more colors now : the feed name right aligned is now in highlight colors (white on blue with the default theme)

And you can notice a new little horizontal blue (the highlight color) bar on the left side of each category/feed/item unread. Useful to quickly show what is unread.

(and Thanks for you message !)

Twidi 2010-09-15 02:21

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank Banul (Post 816279)
Is there a way to view the oldest items at the top? It seems the most recent are at the top in the current implementation.

thanks,
Frank

The engine can manage this but sort options are not available yet in the UI

Btw there is another problem with this : more older item can be displayed as they are retrieved from special feeds (it is possible to view a one month old item) and it will not be easy to see what are the really new items.
I have an idea to manage this, but... my todo list is so long :D

Twidi 2010-09-15 02:22

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fwrnando (Post 816393)
I don't know if this was posted before, but here's the way to get an icon for GRead on your menu, just make a gread.desktop in /usr/share/applications/hildon

There is one now thanks to mavit on Github (is that you ?). But i have no icon yet !

Thanks !

Twidi 2010-09-15 02:30

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Frank Banul (Post 816430)
Feature requests:

I have disabled the timer that scrolls the title in the item view constantly, it's too distracting. Maybe make this a preference?

I have disabled the banner title that scrolls up on view and then is hidden. This is distracting as well. Maybe another preference?

I also reversed the sort order that I requested above.

After these 3 changes (of personal preference), this seems like a pretty sweet application.

thanks,
Frank

I'll have some settings for these things. But i quickly have to redesign the settings box, it will be too long (or maybe it's ok if the dialg is very long ?)

fpp 2010-09-15 13:19

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
There are many long, scrolling settings dialogs,even in Nokia's own software, so I guess it should be OK :-)

fpp 2010-09-15 14:33

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Background colours:
Quote:

Originally Posted by Twidi (Post 816483)
i changed this by used highlight colors instead normal colors (before this change i just used the background as foreground and vice-versa)
And an other change : little feed-name at the right are limited to 1/3 of the total length, to let more place for the feed title (and a bug with multi height lines was also resolved)

Yup, much nicer that way ! I'm not sure about the blue vertical lines to the left of the Feeds lists, though : are those by design, or side effects ?

Icons on the first two screens (Feeds & Posts) :
Quote:

I have not a lot of space, anybody could have long titles...
The first Feeds screen has rather short strings (site names mostly), so there definitely is room for icons on the right, grr-style : Sync, Rotate, All/Unread and Settings would be really useful here.

I agree the second one (posts) could be left alone, even though the titles could wrap to multi-line.

Quote:

Now all list and internal browser should gain focus each time a now content is selected in the previous window.
Yesss ! Great !

Quote:

The keyboard shortcuts are not here yet but i know i have this to do :)
Hmm, OK... I'll remind you :-)

Scrolling title :
Quote:

Thanks to Mavit (someone here ) who made this optional in settings (now available in my version)
What a relief, thanks Mavit ! :)

Fading title :
Quote:

The delay is a little longer now
Make option in settings, # of seconds, 0=fixed ?...

Feed name in View Post mode:
Quote:

With the new limited length of feed titles, it should be better
I don't see anything new in post view ?

"the Fred mode"
Quote:

It could be an idea :)
I still think it's a good one :-)

Font size:
Quote:

I will change the default and add an option in the settings window :) I do the same way each time (zoom at the start of the session)...
Good, I'm not alone :-)

Navigation in portait mode:
Quote:

Notice that you can now switch to the previous/next item directly while viewing an item with two new "furtive" buttons... (but no currently option to fetch more, refresh (etc) in this view)
Well... that was more or less what I was thinking of when I said "a few buttons for the basics"... so that's the basics taken care of, and I agree that portait mode is now usable :-)

Good job once again !

Twidi 2010-09-16 04:17

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Lots of little stuff tonight.

Here is a quick explanation of each commit :
  • "optimizations in libgreader" : less memory used
  • "keep original origin title/url and use it when needed" : typically when items are not in our feeds (friends, notes...)
  • "resolve bug where notes were not displayed" : now you can see your notes (items added outside feeds in google reader)
  • "align item title to top when height too big for the line" : some items with too long titles were unreadable
  • "select first entry in each list after focus gained" : yesterday i added focus to the list but now it works better : first item is always selected when opening the window
  • "use u to toggle unread-only status in items list (and shift-M is now an equivalent to the ****-A, to mark all items as read)" : nothing else to say. I did that because it's hard to do "shift-A" on the n900
  • "add keyboard shortcuts in items list for toggle read/unread status ("m"), starred status ("s") an shared status ("shift-s"). It s the same shortcuts as in the item view" : yeah now keyboard shortcuts in the items list !!!
  • "allow keyboard navigation in the internal browser" : keyboard here to : arrows, space, shift-space, ctrl-arrows
  • "in feeds/categories list, use "shift-s" to sync and "backspace" to close an opened category" : other usefull shortcuts

Now time to go to sleep :)

PS : fpp : the little blue line (or whatever color, depending of the n900 theme) on the left side is for viewing unread categories/feeds/items

fpp 2010-09-16 11:05

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Twidi (Post 817482)
Lots of little stuff tonight.
Here is a quick explanation of each commit :
  • (...)
  • "select first entry in each list after focus gained" : yesterday i added focus to the list but now it works better : first item is always selected when opening the window
  • "use u to toggle unread-only status in items list (and shift-M is now an equivalent to the ****-A, to mark all items as read)" : nothing else to say. I did that because it's hard to do "shift-A" on the n900
  • "add keyboard shortcuts in items list for toggle read/unread status ("m"), starred status ("s") an shared status ("shift-s"). It s the same shortcuts as in the item view" : yeah now keyboard shortcuts in the items list !!!
  • "allow keyboard navigation in the internal browser" : keyboard here to : arrows, space, shift-space, ctrl-arrows
  • "in feeds/categories list, use "shift-s" to sync and "backspace" to close an opened category" : other usefull shortcuts

Yay, fantastic ! And no need for icons anymore, at least in landscape mode... nice escape :-)

Quote:

PS : fpp : the little blue line (or whatever color, depending of the n900 theme) on the left side is for viewing unread categories/feeds/items
Ah, right. I didn't get it because I'm always in "unread" mode... still feels a bit redundant, though.

fpp 2010-09-16 11:34

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
(after testing)

Wel, it's officially official now... I hereby declare GRead the best Google Reader client on the N900, heaps above any grr version out there :-)

Browsing feeds & posts is a pleasure in landscape mode with the keyboard, and at least usable in portait.

At some point I thought "but why not add an 'o' (orientation) shortcut to toggle landscape/portait ?"... then realized what a stupid idea that was :-)

But here's another : maybe extend your "furtive" buttons system in view mode, adding, say, a circle in the middle between the arrows, that would swap orientations ?

Oh, and it's still missing "Fred mode", of course... but everyone needs to sleep, right ? :-)
(I'd try to add it myself, but then I'd have to redo it every day !)

Twidi 2010-09-16 12:44

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
I won't be able to work on the application for some days (little trip to Strasbourg) but next week i'll add a context menu on every screen !

Stay tuned (and thanks for the "best google reader application", it's what i think too :D:D )

grog 2010-09-16 14:29

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by fpp (Post 817786)
(after testing)

Wel, it's officially official now... I hereby declare GRead the best Google Reader client on the N900, heaps above any grr version out there :-)!)

I heartily agree. Thanks Twidi for a great application.

The only two features that are still on my own wish list are:
- offline mode
- accelerometer-based orientation

Keep up the great work, but have a good time off too :)

grog 2010-09-16 16:42

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Actually one more note. I stopped using the Okuda Theme 'cause I couldn't see the text of the items in GRead. It's been mentioned in that thread that some apps didn't follow theme colours properly, which is why they had problems. Just something that maybe you could keep in mind, functionality (reading the items) is more important than eye candy of course, but I'd love to be able to go back to using Okuda, 'cause it's kewl :) :)

TX

fpp 2010-09-16 18:41

Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by Twidi (Post 817848)
I won't be able to work on the application for some days (little trip to Strasbourg) but next week i'll add a context menu on every screen !

Miam... Baeckeoffe, flammekueche, spaetzle and kouglof ! :-)

Quote:

Stay tuned (and thanks for the "best google reader application", it's what i think too :D:D )
Well... just stating the obvious ! :)


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