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[Announce] Gonvert
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Gonvert is a unit converter with a massive collection of units.
See Website Package Page "Help me Hildonize Gonvert" for the previous discussion |
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Thanks epage!
This is super light-weight, zippy, and filled with awesomeness! :D Any possibility of adding apothecary equivalents as well? http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:...&ct=clnk&gl=us |
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God, you guys read my mind or what... I was just looking for apps I need and couldn't find a unit converter, so looked up OSS projects and Gonvert was there.. was hoping to compile it to Fremantle when I get the N900. Guess you beat me to it. Awesome :)
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I placed a request along with a better web page for reference. :) |
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I just promoted a new 0.9.0-6 to Fremantle Extras-Testing, so people with n900's, please go back and vote.
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I want to thank everyone who tested to help get Gonvert into Maemo 5 extras. I just promoted it.
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no no.. thank u for the work :)
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Can I ask why there are no EU-shoe sizes?
Do you want translations to other languages (of the app)? |
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First of all let me say big thumbs up to this app. I'm an engineer and use it at least once a day.
However is it possible at all to add kinetic(?) scrolling like other lists? It would make navigation a lot quicker. Cheers. |
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I have a bug filed on it. I've looked into it before but something weird is going on that I haven't figured out https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6231 |
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I just thought I'd give a small update. I've chosen porting Gonvert to QT as my way of learning QT.
I've so far got the category selection, unit selection and conversion, search, and sorting done. I still need to save the users last selected unit, some keyboard shortcuts, and always keeping the unit entry focused. I also am looking at implementing recent and favorites support. I've still not "hildonized it" (whatever that means for QT) and it crashes on close. I plan to still have the GTK version available for Maemo 4.1 and at some point I will probably switch Maemo 5 over to QT. If you have any suggestions for the process of switching over the UI, let me know. |
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The two main things I'd like improved in the Gonvert UI:
NIT Units Converter for Diablo actually looks a bit closer to what I want, but it hasn't been released for Fremantle yet and is still missing some important units (like the entire "temperature" category). I'm hoping that one of these two apps can implement the features I want from the other one sometime soon. |
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The problem with the from field being unselected is an interaction with the kinetic scrolling. On Diablo there's a scrollbar, so you can scroll the display without tapping on any rows of the table. On Fremantle, you have to swipe the table itself to scroll it, and in Gonvert the initial touch of that swipe is counting as a selection of that unit's row. The result is that I haven't been able to scroll to the "to" unit without selecting several other units in the process. Is there some workaround for this that I'm missing? I know it's possible to swipe the table in Qt applications without selecting the tapped row (I do that in PortaBase), I think there should be a way to do it in GTK+ also.
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So I guess the nice thing is this issue will go away with my QT port. I believe I'm observing on the clicked signal or something like that. |
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If you're going to put the time and effort into porting this, and adding new features as well, then perhaps you might consider entering into the ongoing coding competition.
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Do people think this is something that should be entered? I've also got another app in development that I'm donating to a non-profit. I should ask them if I can enter it... |
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I don't think it has to be flashy for the competition, as far as I know it doesn't even have to be particularly useful. I think the idea is to stimulate more interest amongst the community in developing new apps, so the more entries it gets the better I think.
Plus, as you say it's a complete rewrite of what is, in my opinion, a very useful application. |
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my only request is when you enter the number can you make the text box to auto select number function, pleeeasee
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yes thats it
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well i love gonvert but thats the only quirk i have with the app i usually forget you have to press fn to write the numbers as the gui of the phone usually knows where you have to enter a number
for the rest is amazing :D |
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I thought I'd report that I'm (beyond) feature parity with no known bugs. I just have favorites support and on-device testing left.
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I've just uploaded Gonvert 1.0.0 to the autobuilder. Changes include
Once Gonvert is in Diablo/Fremantle extras-devel I'll spot check and promote to extras-testing |
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Mixed up python with qt. |
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Any feedback on the new interface for Gonvert (1.0.0 or 1.1.0)?
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- it doesn't seem to be auto-enabling Fn for number fields - the numbers in the selected unit remain at zero after a conversion, which is a bit confusing. For example, I'll select Length, then Meter, and enter a value of 1.0 at the top. The rest of the fields will become populated with the conversion results, but 'meter' in the list will remain at 0.0. A small quibble, but it's a bit odd as you scroll through the list. - it seems to lag quite a bit more than I remember Otherwise it's a staggeringly useful conversion app -- thanks very much for all the work you've done :) |
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Out of curiousity, was this 1.0 or 1.1? I'm curious what people think of the new view I added (for lack of a better name, Condensed View)
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Something I've noticed is editing favorites is a bit finicky on Maemo 5. Sadly I don't have control over it. I might try implementing the favorites editor in a different fashion to see if that helps. |
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I'll try to take a look at condensed view a little later on and give some feedback on that -- none of the other points I mentioned stop this from being incredibly useful, but I think I did have favourites enabled, so I'll try playing with that to see if it speeds things up for me. |
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Ok.. turns out I was using 1.0.1-2 in my previous post, so I've upgraded to 1.1 now and played around with it a bit.
Some observations: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/...969d07da_b.jpg The non-condensed (expanded?) view doesn't seem to be displaying the unit list correctly anymore -- as you can see, items are being clipped by the calculated values to the right of them. I've tried switching themes and rebooting, and neither seems to make a difference, so I'm guessing this is something to do with the app As far as condensed view goes, it's quite cool in principle, but in practice I'm seeing a couple of problems: http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4024/...048dfaf4_b.jpg The first thing I notice can be seen in the screenshot above -- in situations where certain units can have multiple types (Point Postscript/Dido/Pica in this example), there is no indication given as to which version is being converted. The other issue I noticed is that when scrolling through the lists, once a selection has been made, the list will always 'jump' to that selection each time you begin scrolling again, making it effectively impossible to simply scroll up/down in the list in order to find a new category/unit.. Instead one must make an arbitrary selection in order to give the list a new position to 'jump' to, scrolling a bit, making another arbitrary selection, scrolling, etc. until you eventually reach the item you're looking for.. I hope that makes sense.. it's a bit tricky to describe. It's got potential, and I suppose some might find it more intuitive, but I actually much prefer the directness of the original view |
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In at least one iteration, the screen was capable of being dragged left/right as well as up/down, which I thought was a perfect way of seeing large numbers which were going off screen.. TBH, my favourite version of this app was the one where you'd simply select the unit you want to start with, enter an amount in a field immediately next to it and see the rest of the conversions populate. It was simple, direct, and totally intuitive once you'd found the unit you want. Just my opinion, of course. Quote:
Two ideas come to mind at the moment: 1 - display the full name of the selected units at the top of the screen.. possibly in a line above the results (ie: "From: Unit A | To: Unit B"). 2 - move to two columns rather than three.. the user chooses a Category first, and then gets to a screen with the "TO" and "FROM" columns.. obviously that's a step back to something resembling the 'standard' mode, but I've never needed to access more than a single Category per use of Gonvert, so maybe it doesn't matter much.. Again, this is me speaking as a fan of the old, so feel free to completely ignore my input here ;) Quote:
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Hopefully we'll see some improvements to the traditional view to make it smoother to work with. Quote:
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I'm uploading 1.1.1 to the auto builder
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If you ever plan on doing another release, do you think you could add apothecary equivalents?
http://www.tostepharmd.net/pharm/cli...asurement.html Thanks Ed! :) |
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