[cckwes]

Greetings, here i would like to announce that DNC, the distrowatch news client for Harmattan has been released. Below are some info for this application

Name: DNC, Distrowatch News Client
Features: News reader for Distrowatch.com including News Headline, Latest Packages and Latest Podcast (ogg/mp3)

More information at http://blog.linux4us.org/2011/07/22/dnc-0-1-1-released/

Can anybody please help me to test in a real N950 device and give me feedback? Thank you very much.

The download link is:
http://linux4us.org/downloads/dnc_0_1_1_armel.deb

and the source at gitorious is:
https://gitorious.org/dnc/dnc

Thank you very much

P/s: If you download the package using wget, please use the following command

wget -U firefox http://linux4us.org/downloads/dnc_0_1_1_armel.deb

[sfietkonstantin]

One mini suggestion
For your news list, please set this :

highlightRangeMode: ListView.StrictlyEnforceRange

This will prevent the "i slide a news, but it flickers too fast and go the the third news"
(I hope I'm clear ...)

And of cause : I like it.
Simple, clean, elegant

EDIT : some more bugs / suggestions :
- Is that normal that you cannot go to the distro / news page ? (with the two buttons)
- Why do not present new packages like distro news ?
- You do not need of the quit button in the main page (Harmattan guidelines), closing is done on the multitask view.

[cckwes]

Originally Posted by sfietkonstantin

One mini suggestion
For your news list, please set this :

highlightRangeMode: ListView.StrictlyEnforceRange

This will prevent the "i slide a news, but it flickers too fast and go the the third news"
(I hope I'm clear ...)

Ok, i will change it on next minor update

Originally Posted by sfietkonstantin

And of cause : I like it.
Simple, clean, elegant

Thanks for your compliment

Originally Posted by sfietkonstantin

EDIT : some more bugs / suggestions :
- Is that normal that you cannot go to the distro / news page ? (with the two buttons)
- Why do not present new packages like distro news ?
- You do not need of the quit button in the main page (Harmattan guidelines), closing is done on the multitask view.

-The two button did not open the distro / news page with external browser? I'm using

Qt::openUrlExternally ( url target )

to open the link with external browser
-Can you please clarify your second statement? Did you mean present it in the following format?
date package name version
-Ok, i'll remove the quit button on next minor release

Anyway, thanks for testing this application. Thanks for your suggestion, it's very valuable for me to improve this application

[sfietkonstantin]

About the second statement, I really want the latest package view not to open the web browser when clicking on an element, but present the content of the website inside the application.

And well, when I click on the package, it goes to the main page of distrowatch website ...

I also confirm that the buttons did not work, maybe did you forget to connect the signals.

I did not tried podcasts yet.

Finally, one more comment (sorry, I'm kind of guy that is never satisfied) you should add a "busy indicator" when the screenshot of the distro is loading

[cckwes]

Originally Posted by sfietkonstantin

One mini suggestion
For your news list, please set this :

highlightRangeMode: ListView.StrictlyEnforceRange

This will prevent the "i slide a news, but it flickers too fast and go the the third news"
(I hope I'm clear ...)

And of cause : I like it.
Simple, clean, elegant

EDIT : some more bugs / suggestions :
- Is that normal that you cannot go to the distro / news page ? (with the two buttons)
- Why do not present new packages like distro news ?
- You do not need of the quit button in the main page (Harmattan guidelines), closing is done on the multitask view.

Hi, i've made some tweaks on DNC based on your suggestion and here comes DNC 0.1.1. I've updated the first post's link for downloading DNC 0.1.1

Here's a list of changes in this minor update

• Link for Latest Package page has been disable due to redirection back to distrowatch for every package link
• Busy indicator (loading animation) for screenshot in News Headline page
• Fix Button issue for News Headline page, now both button would open an external browser for News and Distro respectively on clicked
• List View will only snap to 1 item.
• Removal of quit button at the main page

The downside of this update is that clicking on a link or button inside DNC still open up an external browser. I'm working on it ( cause there're some problem with QtWebKit in my scratchbox and Qemu is damn slow ) and hope to present it on the following update.

Thank you for testing and giving me some useful suggestion

[sfietkonstantin]

I have some crashes when trying to go to news
It is a bit strange.
Maybe are you using threads to download, because the problem is not always reproductible ...

EDIT : the rest is just plain cool Thanks
Even if I do not use DistroWatch much, but this application has a real quality, and I hope that you can adapt this app for others news sources or even write a news reader