aworldofblah: Software Center!

So i never got to UDS Part 2, oh well... :P

Nevertheless, I have been busy in Software Center land and i extremely happy with the progress i have been making!

At UDS i managed to demo a pure GTK version of the lobby screen and I also had a coded mockup of a pure GTK detailsview. Feedback was mostly positive and over the last few months i have continued working on the bits, seeing numerous prototypes and code rewritten time an again! About 4 weeks ago mpt provided some nice detailed specs from which i could work from with regards an updated lobby screen, so that is what i set about doing.

Now i am settling on what i think will be the code that makes it into Maverick. I am really happy that past code i have experimented with has been brought forward, matured and is now forming quite a nice library of classes and methods which i have been working with on and ongoing basis. Such classes i have separated out from their original files into what I am calling mkit, which holds fairly generic (useful) methods and classes.

So far I have seen my catview_gtk.py file merged into Software Center trunk, along with mkit.py. Community feedback seems positive, there have been 2 or 3 articles on OMG Ubuntu! and both author and commenteers seem to approve of the implementations.

I am hopeful that my appdetailsview.py Gtk implementation will be merged into trunk in the next few weeks. I think it is a really beautiful example of what Gtk is capable of given the time and effort.

In the coming weeks i plan to bring a semi rewrite of appview.py up to scratch as i think that looks much nicer than the current incarnation.

So without further adieu, here are some screenshots of stuff i have been working on lately:

The Lobby Screen: