1. uTranslate : first design recap

    Publié le mercredi 18 septembre 2013 par Michel Renon   Licence Creative Commons

    Now that the contest is finished and while waiting for results, I can take some time to explain the design of uTranslate.

    First, I had big constraints : only 3 weeks available, no knowledge of QML. So I had to choose a simple subject. A subject that needs as few as ...

  2. uTranslate : version 0.2 submitted to AppStore !

    Publié le dimanche 15 septembre 2013 par Michel Renon   Licence Creative Commons

    Yesterday, I could create version 0.1 and upload it on AppStore !

    And today, I finally created version 0.2 of uTranslate :

    • list of suggestions has correct text size, correct clip
    • list of suggestions has a visual effect when selecting an element
    • lang selector has flags without visual artefact (it ...
  3. uTranslate : Convergence & storage !

    Publié le jeudi 12 septembre 2013 par Michel Renon   Licence Creative Commons

    Full steam ahead !!

    uTranslate now stores the languages chosen by user : when you close and restart uTranslate, you find your last settings. And it handles convergence : the layout is modified to handle big screens.

    Here is the standard (phone) layout :

    uTranslate3-1

    And here is the layout for tablet/desktop : the suggestion ...

  4. uTranslate : week 2

    Publié le lundi 09 septembre 2013 par Michel Renon   Licence Creative Commons

    I worked on improving layout and UI for 'phone' layout :

    I worked on improving layout and UI for 'phone' layout

    When you start typing, the suggestion list appears, like a popup under the text field :

    When you start typing, the suggestion list appears

    And the suggestion list disappears when you click on 'search' or a suggestion :

    uTranslate : first week, screenshots !

    Publié le samedi 31 août 2013 par Michel Renon   Licence Creative Commons

    Here are the results of one week of work on uTranslate !

    QML is really a fantastic technology ! It's the first time that I use a tool that seems to be perfect for GUI coding. It's light years better than other I used : MacApp, HTML+CSS+JS, XUL. In ...

  5. Ubuntu Touch : an emergency mode ?

    Publié le samedi 22 juin 2013 par Michel Renon   Licence Creative Commons

    When friends came home, I let them try UbuntuTouch on my Nexus7. First, I just said "use edges".

    They started and found easily the launcher, then launched gallery, then an image in full screen, and then... lost ! They were stuck on the image, tapping/swapping on the image as much ...