Actually, I didn't miss it, but I figured I wouldn't get the time to respond earlier today And that gave me some time to think about your suggestion as well.

First of all I must say that it looks really sexy! The design is neat and clean, yet prettier than the default Maemo look. However, a few things come to mind when I see it, which needs to be discussed:

1. Should the scanner show up in full screen or in a small widget (like your design and the current)? Some other scanners seem to use full screen with overlayed icons, which looks pretty, but I'm not sure about how it affects the user experience. Others do it the same way as we do. Any thoughts?
2. I believe the options like "Search Froogle" etc. should show up in a new window like they do now. This makes it easier to maintain a longer list as we get more plugins and choices. The design of the list could use some freshening up, though.
3. Cramping everything into one window makes it harder to read the text and hit the buttons. I think it is better for the user experience if we divide the process into a few more windows instead.
4. If we implement a major design change like you have suggested, we'll have to think about how we can make it integrate well with the default Maemo design. This is because I believe most plugin developers don't want to use a lot of time to integrate their plugins into a different mBarcode design. In other words; we should ensure that when we change the GUI-design of the application itself, the plugin developers won't have to make any changes to their code at all.

I've considered to move the options like "Open Image", "Scan" and maybe some other stuff like "History" and "About" to a startup screen. Somewhat like they do in Shop Savvy:

Do you think this would be a good idea?

Anyways, nice work and thanks for the suggestion! I would really like to have you on the team for some design work. Do you design icons as well?