![]() |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
|
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 :
Future :
|
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Good job, testing right away...
|
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Well, unfortunately that was very quick :
Quote:
|
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.
|
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 ! |
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 :-)
|
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" :) |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Ooops sorry :-)
Do you hope to get rich with this ? It sounds like "Greed" :-) |
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 :
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 |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
Code:
$ python ./GRead/src/gread.py |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
That one looks easy to solve :-)
|
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.
|
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 :) |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
OK it works now, here is the exception trapped at startup :
Quote:
|
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
|
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 :
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) |
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. |
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 :) |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
I just made some UI enhancement in lists :
It looks really better with these little improvements. I hope you'll like it. |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
|
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 :-) |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Thanks for the app. Really starting to look good. |
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 |
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] also; re: suggestions: +1 for not being able to stand the marquee on the title, I'd love an option to disable it :P |
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 |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
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:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
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 ! |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
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 !) |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
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 |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
Thanks ! |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
|
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 :-)
|
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Background colours:
Quote:
Icons on the first two screens (Feeds & Posts) : Quote:
I agree the second one (posts) could be left alone, even though the titles could wrap to multi-line. Quote:
Quote:
Scrolling title : Quote:
Fading title : Quote:
Feed name in View Post mode: Quote:
"the Fred mode" Quote:
Font size: Quote:
Navigation in portait mode: Quote:
Good job once again ! |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Lots of little stuff tonight.
Here is a quick explanation of each commit :
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 |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
Quote:
|
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 !) |
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 ) |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
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 :) |
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 |
Re: [Announce] GRead : yet another Google Reader application... (PyQt)
Quote:
Quote:
|
All times are GMT. The time now is 08:13. |
vBulletin® Version 3.8.8