SpeedCrunch and git

I have shown before how to use git to manage your code hosted in Google Code Project Hosting and how to synchronize it (automatically) with a public git repository hosted in github. SpeedCrunch, your lovely desktop calculator, is an example of all this.

Flash back first. Due to an increasing demand, some time ago we (=Johan and I) decided that we should provide public Subversion repository for SpeedCrunch. Google Code was new but quickly became the popular choice, so Johan pulled the plug and imported the then latest version of the code. This happened 840 days ago. Fast forward to today. As of now, you can also get SpeedCrunch source code from github, it is available from http://github.com/ariya/speedcrunch/. It means you need as short as:

git clone git://github.com/ariya/speedcrunch.git

and voila! You get all commits since the first time the code was imported. For fun, try git log e3cddb :-). For practical reasons, right now I only push master and 0.10 branches, which correspond to the trunk and branches/0.10 in its Google Code subversion repository. The .git directory weighs at around 5 MB.

Of course, if you decide to fix bugs and make changes, just push your SpeedCrunch repository somewhere and (if Helder, the current maintainer, has no objection), I can merge into my github repository (if necessary, I would even cherry pick your changes). Think you can do better? Go ahead, sign up for github if you haven't done so (it's free!), then you can "fork" the repository easily. Just click on the button labeled fork. When you are happy with your own tree, use the pull request button (in your github repository) to notify me and we'll see what would happen.

Note: this public git repository is by no means the official one, as the official repository is still hosted in Google Code. It is fully synchronized, though. And by using git, I hope this can spark more contributions in term of new features, bug fixes, translations, etc.

Don't you just love choices?

SpeedCrunch: "Nona" edition

SpeedCrunch version 0.9 has just been released. The improvements are not really user visible, but check the ChangeLog and fixed bugs, nevertheless. Also, this release is available in 17 languages (and contributions are welcomed).

Source tarball and Windows installer are ready for consumption. Go to http://code.google.com/p/speedcrunch/ and get it while it's hot. Binary packages for major Linux distributions usually follow soon.

And now that the first ever release of KDE 4 is on the horizon, it's time to think to start enabling KDE integration in SpeedCrunch.

Note: Nona is nine ninth in Portuguese.

SpeedCrunch's tip of the day

Typically, "tip of the day" feature is not really loved. Often, the dialog for showing the tip blocks the main view of the application. Worse, this dialog is even modal, you have to click it to make it disappear.

For SpeedCrunch upcoming version 0.8, I play around with the idea of showing a short tip as a yellowish widget inside the main window. It will disappear automatically after couple of seconds (even with some smooth translucent and animation effect). I'm still thinking whether the tip should be displayed at start up, or only from a menu item.

I hope this kind of tip is non-intrusive and yet allows the users to learn a thing or two about SpeedCrunch features.

So, what do you think?

(Yes, I know there is typo in the screenshot :-)

point seven

Finally, SpeedCrunch version 0.7 has been released. Compared to the last beta, this final release has some fixes for potential crash (due to Q3TextEdit), which is also reported in Launchpad.

So, get it while it's hot. Packages are already available for Windows, Mac OS X (universal binary), Fedora, OpenSUSE, Gentoo, and Debian. Or just compile it from source if you feel brave. See the download page for details.

For some stuff which will make it into the upcoming 0.8, I'm still preparing an interesting screencast. Stay tuned.