Quick UI update

I’ve realized that I have not communicate much lately (I blame my job, having to do a 9 am – 1 am shift is crazy). So I have decided to give a very quick update. All my current work has been focused on the design of the UI, which is quite appropriate right now

I have re-written the UI to match the design better and make it more pleasant to the eye. To do so I have had to fully write from scratch all the different widgets which would have been a pain in the ass if it was not for the fact that I have writen everything using goocanvas, with a surprisingly good looking result (I needed to write a small hack, but is just tiny). Enough said, this are the current looks of the main widget with no menu etc…

And with the search box the main widget looks like this:

As you can see the avatars (besides the lovely image of myself) look much better now that the ones provided by the Gtk IconView:

New look

Old look

I have also spent a fare about of my free time on implementing a search bar similar to that one found in chrome which I think looks great:
Of course I will be posting more details about how I wrote the UI but that will have to wait until I get back from my well deserved holidays in NY (next week!). As a side note, my idea is to get the UI as finished as possible to be able to show it at UDS which this time is very close to my current residence