Listpatron sneak-preview

Saturday, August 7th, 2004

It might appear that I haven’t been working on any projects for a while, but looks are deceiving. A little while ago I announced that I would be diving into GTK 2.0 in preperation of the porting of Nimf to GTK 2. I started with creating some simple lists and, before I knew it, I was working on a new project.

The new project will be a replacement for quicklist. While quicklist is a nice application, it is lacking some features which I would like to see. Next to that, the interface is terrible. For one, the keys are all wrong (copy/paste is alt-c, alt-v). At first I decided to work on the source of quicklist, but it’s quite old (still uses GTK 1.x).

So was born: Listpatron. (I’m not sure if that’ll be the final name). Since it will probably be a while before it’s released unto the world, here’s a little sneak-preview:

Import dialog
Imported list of books
Editing and menu

Update : I’ve just noticed that the official website of quicklist (www.quicklist.org) is for sale. The application hasn’t been updated in quite a while, but was still available from the website. Now it’s gone. There are still the Debian Binaries and sources, but the original source is gone. I’ve tried to find it somewhere else on the internet but couldn’t.