Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

This is a valid point personally it would be good for the app to have a secondary or third location to pull the currency conversation data incase your main site goes down, so the user seamlessy keeps working on that 2nd/3rd site and you can release an update to fix it (which there would be no real rush since the user is happily working).

Also i agree with the converstions for other measurements, if you built in a whole load of standard converstions like the iphone app "converter" you would have a very powerful all-in-one app.

Great work !!

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

The version 0.6-1 has already two sources for updating exchange rates. It's currently in Extras-testing.

The version 0.8-3, which I just uploaded to Extras-devel, includes the measurements unit conversions. :)

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

0.6-1 is working great for me--I will vote for it on the testing site

I will see if I have some time to play with 0.8-3 this weekend...

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

Works well here. Looks like the settings menu has been replaced - is good.

I also like the way you handled additional ("next") currencies. And adding basic unit conversions just swell :D

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

I forgot to mention that the latest version will again restore all settings to defaults, so you will lose the custom currencies. Sorry about that.

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

I just uploaded version 0.8-4 to Extras-devel. I made some changes/additions to the help files compared to 0.8-3. Also the help files are now context sensitive to the window.

As usual, feedback is appreciated. :)

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

The version 0.6-1 in Extras-testing has enough votes now. Thank you for voting. :)

I still need testers for version 0.8-4 that is in Extras-devel. I would be very grateful for any feedback.

Thanks :)

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

As there has been requests to add some currencies that are pegged to the US Dollar, I made a new version (0.8-5). In this version there is a Pegged to the US Dollar toggle button in Currency Edit. With this feature the exchange rates are calculated automatically during update for custom currencies that are pegged to the US Dollar.

Unfortunately the autobuilder in maemo.org seems to be broken now, so I'm not able to upload it to Extars-devel. I will do it as soon as it works again. I will notify when it is successfully uploaded.

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

I finally was able to upload the latest version as the autobuilder is working again. The latest version in Extras-devel is 0.8-6. Please test it.

Thanks :)

Re: [Announce] Currency Converter
 

I played around with 0.8-3 a little this weekend. I have to say that I'm pretty impressed by the improvements since the last release. I like how you can save the currencies and unit conversions that you care about the most. The UI is clean and mostly intuitive.

The unit settings page was a little confusing at first, but I got the hang of it just by playing around with it. My sense is that you can probably leave the layout as is and see if the documentation is adequate. But if you are still getting feedback about the settings layout, you should consider adding headers (maybe in smaller font) to delineate the sections on the left-most column on the page.

Categories
Area
Length

Saved Conversions
Fahrenheit-Celsius
Mile per Hour - Kilometre...

I don't think it's necessary, though. As I said, I figured iout the layout just by playing around with it.

One other set of conversions you should consider implementing is clothing and shoe size conversions. I think that the tricky thing with that is that they may not have set conversion factors--I think you would have to rely on conversion tables for those cases.

Otherwise, great job!