Okay for anyone who's feeling pretty "bleeding edge", here's a preview/alpha release of the C-SDL version of Flip that I've been working on. It's not packaged, it's not bundled, no icons or anything fancy like that yet (that's easy I just haven't had time to package it all up yet), but basically download on tablet to the root file system (/), extract (should create a folder "/fclockC", go into there and type "./flipclock" and it should launch.
https://garage.maemo.org/frs/downloa...a-0.0.1.tar.gz

A few points to note:

• This is a VERY EARLY PREVIEW to show you guys what I'm working on and to find crashes/bugs! IT IS NOT in any way useable... well, I mean it's a clock, but...
• The images and sources are statically tied to the "/flipclockC" directory, so if you find nothing happens when you try to launch, or you get errors about missing files/etc, make sure you've got the app extracted in the right place!
• I forgot that Ciro's C-SDL background doesn't have a "change theme" button on it... so when the clock first loads, you can switch to the alternate theme by pressing just to the left of the Exit button (where the change mood button is on the old Flipclock). The alternate theme has that button in place so you should be okay.
• Feedback is appreciated and any crashing/problems it'd be nice to hear about as I may or maynot have fixed them by the time you post 'em up ;-)
• There's no alarm functionality at all yet, so don't go looking for it ;-)
• There IS Hardware Device support in this version... so leave it running for a while and you shouldn't have to worry about battery consumption and the app will go into power save mode just like normal Flip does...

Again keep in mind this is really just to keep you guys up to date on what's happening and keep everyone excited about Flip ;-) The theme stuff is working out pretty well, the long term plan is to have a "mini theme selector" pop up if more than two themes are available for you to choose between, with extra themes being extra .deb packages to install (that way Ciro can design all kinds of cool crazy clocks and all he needs to do is write an XML file with some info in it, publish the graphics, and it's good to go!).

Once I get a little further along with things I'll look into the volume stuff, should be do-able as you guys describe but I know the controls on the tablet are a bit strange... I'm also kind of hoping for some other neat tricks that I'll be able to roll into this since it's now C-based (still want to try to get that thing where it listens to you snore and decides the best time to wake u up thing going on that was discussed WAAAY back). Lots of work to go still though my priority is to get the settings/preferences and then alarm stuff in next which will be quite a task...