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Snail on sail
Originally uploaded by Colours of Infinity.

The photo above is in no way related to the slowness of the development on movida. Ok?!?

Ok, enought with it. This post is not about bikinis or naked racoons, in case you are wondering, so feel free to stop reading and close this page.

There’s been lot’s of progress on movida since my last post and mainly on the Smart View (how does it come that I call something I have written "smart"?!?) and on the bug-side

In short, this post is about zooming the Smart View, new movie attributes, new smart view controls and compressed SVGs. No, no bikinis!

Here is a new work in progress screenshot of the new Smart View in Movida.

As you can see, a slider (this is just a test window, it’s not the final product!) allows to resize the tiles, still preserving the aspect ratio. Resizing is still slow (specially if you set a 5MB bitmap as movie poster) because the thumbnails are resized every time (if thumbnails of that size cannot be found in the cache) using QPixmap’s scale methods. And they ain’t the best ones.

The best would be to stretch the current thumbnail and to scale the full size image in the background, replacing the temporarily stretched pixmap.

And here comes a (buggy) animated screenshot of the new RatingLabel widget. A stand alone version has been uploaded to The OSDaB Project.