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#280
A status update for Katana:
* I now have an actual device, so I've been able to do live testing.
* Speed: Loading is a little slow (~5 seconds), but after that, it's reasonable snappy.
* Integration: Kinetic scrolling, hildon menu, and portrait mode are all working.
* Functionality: Basic browsing, verse selection, and searching work. Search results aren't displayed nicely on the actual device; I'll probably work on this next.
* Packaging: I went ahead and created the debian/ files needed to create a proper .deb package. This is the first time I've done this, so it might not be done correctly, but it works for me. Nathan/pamadio, would you mind looking over the files to make sure they look right?
* Qt integration: I'm using the qt4-maemo5 packages in the extras repo. These seem to be working well, with the exception of gesture support; see below.

There's still a lot of stuff not done:
* Right now you swipe vertically to scroll; I'd also like to be able to swipe horizontally to page up/down. This is on hold because Qt's gesture support is broken on the N900 right now (they have screencasts with it working, but their gestures sample doesn't work on the device.)
* Better use of the keyboard: starting to type on the keyboard should either pull up the search dialog or verse selection - I'm not sure which.
* I haven't started on module download/installation.
* It would be nice to have configurable font size.
* Oh, I temporarily borrowed BibleTime's icon. Someone should come up with one. I really think that it should be a Bible, since there's nothing in the name to indicate that it's a Bible reader.