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QuickList abandoned
QuickList relies on GtkSheet from gtk+extra2 which is long dead upstream. A port to the spreadsheet widget provided by libgoffice is possible but I no longer have time to do the port. Equally, quicklist needs work to be ready for the upcoming transition to GTK+3 and there are still components in quicklist that have not been fully implemented in the GTK+2 version but which did exist in the GTK+1.2 versions.
2009-08-07 10:17:16 UTC by codehelpgpg
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QuickList 0.9.1 released
QuickList allows novice and experienced users to keep track of "things" without any help from a system administrator. "Things" can be anything. Some examples include: bug lists, phone lists, restaurants, team members, calendars, cool URLs, chequebooks, fishing holes, CDs, etc. It is completely flexible.
Main changes here are including the translations provided by Debian - thanks to all those who submitted po files.
No new functionality in this release - more an incremental improvement in the underlying codebase.
Future plans for QuickList
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The 0.9.x series will continue the theme of incremental improvements, but once libqof2 is released, quicklist will begin to use QOF objects that are created dynamically from QuickList data as well as using QOF features like 64bit time and a choice of backends. I expect this to bring with it a SQL-query interface that would allow QuickList to provide a more usable report interface, finally replacing the missing functionality from the old QuickList. The QOF support will be implemented as a "read-only" mode, certainly initially, so that QuickList could read any QOF data source then produce SQL-based reports in HTML on the data. Eventually, this "read-only" mode should be able to handle "integral" data sources like the apt cache or other well-established sources where a suitable C API exists. This would allow any QuickList user to load the apt-cache, select data in any control field of any package using SQL syntax (via a GUI or via direct text entry), format a report in HTML and export that report to a file.
The QOF support would allow the code to support these data sources to be packaged as Glib modules (similar to libqofexpensesobjects0) to keep dependencies under control.
With this kind of support in place, I could finally be ready to release quicklist 1.0.0 sometime after Lenny. :-)
If anyone is interested in any of these ideas, feel free to help with QuickList development.
http://quicklist.sourceforge.net/
http://qof.sourceforge.net/ Query Object Framework (QOF)
2008-01-29 22:43:49 UTC by codehelpgpg
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QuickList 0.9.0 release
QuickList allows novice and experienced users to keep track of "things" without any help from a system administrator. "Things" can be anything. Some examples include: bug lists, phone lists, restaurants, team members, calendars, cool URLs, chequebooks, fishing holes, CDs, etc. It is completely flexible.
v0.9.0 is the first release of the Gtk2 version of quicklist.
QuickList has to compete for development time with a variety of other projects and this leads to the GTK2 version being incomplete.
Known problems include:
The incomplete port of the Sort and Filter functionality
Difficulties creating new reports.
If you would like things to happen more quickly, please feel free to contribute patches and/or development time under the GPL v3 or later. When built from CVS, quicklist includes a doxygen Developer Reference that tries to document the migration process and includes full details of existing bugs and ToDo items. This Developer Reference is uploaded to the QuickList homepage on SourceForge intermittently and can be found at http://quicklist.sourceforge.net/doxy/ but building the pages from CVS with doxygen (using 'make -C doc doc') is the best way to get the updated reference.
2007-12-10 13:13:48 UTC by codehelpgpg
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Preparing for quicklist 0.9.0 release
The core of the Gtk+2 code in quicklist is now usable and I'm preparing for the first release since moving the project to SourceForge. Some features are disabled due to incomplete migration and stability problems, these include creating new reports, filters and customised sort patterns.
Translators have been asked for updates and once some of those have been updated and I've had time for a little more testing, I'll make the first 0.9.0 release.
During the 0.9.x series, missing features will be re-enabled and more translations are expected to be added.
QuickList is looking for developer help - a C programmer (or more) is needed to help with the remaining tasks. Experience of Gtk+2 is important.
2007-12-07 10:03:56 UTC by codehelpgpg
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First pre-release
Quicklist is a GTK2 utility for making lists of things.
The long-awaited Gtk2 port is taking shape but more is to be done. In particular, there is a patch for gtk+extra2 in Debian that MUST be implemented before quicklist can remain stable. An expanded patch is pending upload to Debian. See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/gtk%252Bextra2-2.1.1-3.1-nmu.diff?bug=394839;msg=20;att=1
Quicklist now uses a notebook-style interface and large sections of the codebase have been rewritten. A series of pre-releases will now follow.
2007-02-06 22:23:07 UTC by codehelpgpg
