Progress with our designer on the icons and background images has been somewhat slow, but progress is being made. He estimates few more nights to complete the majority of the first iconset and background images (each page will have a light, transparent background image).

The Home page layout was discussed and decided that it will be google-style search page, with customizability options, such as displaying RSS feeds and more - similar to Google's "Personalized home page". Initially I plan to use Qt's own HTML-rendering capabilities, which are somewhat limited, but should be sufficient for this purpose. In long-term, we might have to load external HTML renderer (IE on win32, etc) if we want to display more advanced, dynamic content there (possibly promoting legal/free content there), somewhat similar to Windows Media Player's Media Guide or eMule Content Database. However, the latter is more of a long-term future plan, since we lack the resources to set that up in near future.

The zombie-client optimizations and other tweaks have had rather positive impact on overall speeds and stability of the speeds. Downloadsession averages are over 5 MB already, 5.35 MB in my current session, uploadsession averages at 4.74 MB. About 6 months ago it was around 2-3MB, and around 3-4 months ago it was around 4 MB, so it's a definate improvement. Downloadsession failure percentages have dropped as well, down to ~36% (from ~45%).

My current top priority topic is global and multiple searching capabilities - something that's boring, and somewhat tricky to implement, which are the reasons why I'v delayed it so long. But obviously it can't wait any longer, since it's essencial feature for the GUI to use.

Madcat, ZzZz