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#330
New build! And a surprising new feature:
qgvdial is now able to dial back into the Gmail GV interface.
What this means is that if you select the "Google Talk" entry in the list of registered phones and make a call, then the callback will be in the Gmail interface.
Why surprising? Because I was surprised at how quickly I managed to make it work.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
Changing the visual look of the text fields to actually look like text fields is all you need to do, no documentation required.
Done.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
Now that I realize that entire screen was "settings". Closing the UI is not a setting. There should be a persistent button for that (and for just minimizing qgvdial) much like some of the other fullscreen maemo apps.
The persistent button is the top bar.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
Putting the proxy settings and mosquitto settings all on that main settings page would probably be good.

All of the buttons could use some spacing on all screens, especially "logout" so one doesn't accidentally click that while doing something else.
Button sizes increased.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
Refresh and about aren't really related to settings. I would suggest finding a different way to represent them. One would be refresh buttons like I recently did in Dialcentral.
True... I'll have to look into this...

Originally Posted by epage View Post
Also, refresh I take refreshes everything? Usually I find I only want to refresh missed calls or voicemail or texts and waiting for a full refresh seems wasteful.
This could require a UI re-design. Also, the inbox and contacts update are optimized so that only the data since the last modified time is picked up and no more... Unless of course you long-press Refresh - in that case, it does a no-hold-barred full refresh.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
Wow, a contact has a "close" button and the "back" button. Oddly enough "close" goes back one level" while "back" goes to the main screen.

On the dialpad when selecting a call method, it isn't clear that some are call-in and some are call-out, I had to think about that for a bit "oh, this is downloaded from gv while that is from my telepathy".
True. The top bar is obvious, but the individual entries need to be updated.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
When I call a contact, what call method is used? What I configured on the dialpad? That then sounds like a settings that belongs right below the login buttons or it should be available wherever one may call.
I've followed the approximate scheme of keeping the dial method on the dialpad - just like the default phone app.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
On "inbox" the category touch selector isn't too obvious at being a touch selector.
True. Needs to be fixed. Will do.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
On voicemails I didn't notice it was downloading and got two play dialogs. And for some reason it wasn't playing for me. Any reason you don't show the voicemail text? Odd that I only show text while you only allow playback
Heh. That's partly because I've almost never had a voicemail that's been transcribed meaningfully. Blame it on the accent.
But you're right. This needs to be fixed.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
For sms, you only seem to be showing the last message the person sent rather than the whole conversation.
I need to look into this.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
This is probably from the mixture of qwidget with qml but closing of the text writing window should automatically go back to the main window rather than using the task switcher. Is there not a way for one to be a subwindow of the other?
This is a remnant of the non-QML days. I'll get to this soon.

Originally Posted by epage View Post
For the most part, with some good UI you won't except for how do I setup a mosquitto server since that is unrelated to direct use of the application.

I tried clicking that. The click target is unclear and kind of small. Only knowing that yes that is what I need to click did I actually click it. Also knowing that on the first screen that I need to go "back" is confusing as I saw nothing to go "back" to. Maybe popping up the main screen and then sliding to the login screen would help with that.
I've made some changes to the text fields so that they look distinctly different from labels.
There's a bunch of other UI improvements as well.

Right now its in devel, but it should soon be in testing.
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qgvdial: Google Voice client. All downloads
qgvtp: Phone integration for the n900 that dials out and sends texts using qgvdial.
mosquitto: message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.
qgvnotify: Google voice and contacts notifier for diablo and maemo.

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