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Does anyone have any knowledge of this app? There seems to be no thread for it. I installed it and was wonderinbg if theres any way I can change the test colors as I am using the meta theme and the text is quite hard to read. Any help would be appreciated.

I just checked this app out yesterday, adn for the life of me I can't figure out how to remove items on the list. Whenever you make a list it populates the list with some default items and I can't figure out how to remove them. Anyone figured this out yet or is it just not possible. Other than that it seems very useful. I like the fact that you can just leave the items in the database and check the ones that you need on a specific trip to make the list. I'm gonna try this out tomorrow when I go shopping and see how it works.

It is definitely flakey...what pisses me off is I went to install this yesterday and cause of that bloated qt package I ran out of room mid install and it threw me into a reboot loop and I had to reflash, lost most of my document, most of my covers in canola...EVERYTHING...was in the process of reorganizing and hadnt made a new backup....so i finally get my tablet restored, been up since 4am sat morning and come to find out this app apparently isnt worth a flying **** at a rolling doughnut....needless to say Im a little upset. LOL

I've just tried this app out for the first time. I like the idea of a shopping listg app, but this one is a bit user unfriendly. I can't see how to edit existing entries. The toolbar icons are small and unclear. And what's the status bar icon for? I can see some potential, though.

Well . . . it is version 0.5.5. . . .

As with most applications in Maemo, tap'n'hold can be quite revealing.

And that's why I only write for myself.

@munky261
It's mine - I wanted a shopping list app and to play with the N800.
I'm not a huge forum guy but I hang out on irc and the mailing list if you have questions.

Sorry your machine had problems installing it though

Right now you can't easily change the colours - I did try using Qt stylesheets but had some performance issues so they are hardcoded for now. I think Qt 4.5 may help in this area.

If you like try running it from the commandline as:
shopper -stylesheet style.txt
see the attached style.txt css file.


@sceptre15
yeah - writing some help is on the list - I asked my wife but she was too busy...
As GA says - you can click and hold. I will do some help soon - promise

The app was an exercise in C++/gtk/Qt - not ui design. Happy to improve it of course but this is the very first public release. Release early, release often

I was quite pleased with the finger scrolling and the gesturing though; I'm also happy that 0.5.6 works in portrait if you have the right xserver/kernel.

@pelago - Completely agree - I've already scaled up the icons in 0.5.6. The status icon comes up when I use a Qt notifier - can't get rid... yet. It's a pain.

Anyhow - sorry it's not perfect yet; I'll keep working on it and I'm receptive to positive suggestions for improvements or code

Thanks for the app lbt, and I'm glad you can take criticism, good and bad. Regarding the finger scrolling, it feels a little off to me, I think because the item directly under your finger doesn't 'stick' to your finger, if you see what I mean.

Yes - it's a lot better with a big list but Qt doesn't quite provide the API to make that easy

Heh - you should have tried version 0.5 - or maybe not!

Plus there are 2 conflicting things - if you touch and move more than 30 pixels in < 0.1 sec then it's the start of a gesture.
If you touch and *then* move, it's a scroll.

Plus there seems to be an 'extra' X11 or Qt move event which means the last move has zero velocity - made the kinetic very bad.

Honestly I don't think I should have both mechanisms running at once - but I managed it and it works quite nicely. A scroll is more a finger "touch then move", a gesture is more a finger "touch as you're moving".

lbt, the extra move event.

describe it please - it sounds like qt is being affected by the same thing other apps fall into when using the pressure sensitive driver, ie
when drawing a stroke sometimes you do not get the final pressure=0 mouse event to indicate mouseup.
it only occurs when the cpu is busy with other things.