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It would be nice to be able to configure the data source for the exchange rates. In particular it would be great to be able to use the European Central Bank's data feed rather than Google's:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html

The loading spinner can get quite disruptive when it's shown every time a character is typed. The conversions are usually fast enough to not require one. Is it possible to only show it when the conversion turns out to take e.g. > 1 second?

Possibly happening because of an API timeout?

From other similar apps, I'd expect the entered values to also switch around.

From the UI styling guidelines:

Per-app style preferences are primarily useful for text editing apps, or apps which users use for long periods of time. In these cases, the style preference can be useful as a way of controlling visual contrast and brightness.

Apps that don't fit this description generally shouldn't have an in-app theme switcher, but just follow the system setting instead.

The current layout of the app, for reference:

It has some issues: Different elements that are actually related to each other (like output currency and the output value) aren't visually grouped, and a button press is required to make the conversion. Here's a suggestion for improving it:

The lightbulb icon would do the same thing as the current "disclaimer" link. The results would be updated live, and not just when the convert button is pressed.

I would have addressed the UI when beginning your Circle review, but decided to suggest this beforehand so we don't have to spend so much time on design details in the actual review process.

Would be neat if one could view historical exchange rates with a nice graph, a bit like the following between EUR and USD from Google:

When searching for currencies, it would be nice to be able to search using just the abbreviation.

• Ex: instead of being forced to type "United Sta..." one could just type "USD" instead.

Adding support for Search Provider would be a nice and quick way to convert currencies. Calculator already supports this, but it doesn't support as many currencies as Currency Converter.

Example of what I am talking about:

Searching for currencies will be much more convenient if users can visually distinguish them from each other. Here is an example from the FOSS Currencies app for Android:

The current app icon is partially derived from the example in the app icon guidelines. It would be fun if it could have an icon that is entirely its own! You can open a request in the App Icon Requests repository when #31 has been resolved.

I don't know what font it is, but it's not Cantarell, at least 🙂

The main UI could use a more GNOME deisgn...

I've created a mockup for it:

Here's the blueprint:

using Gtk 4.0;
using Adw 1;

Adw.Bin {
  Adw.Clamp {
    maximum-size: 800;
    margin-start: 12;
    margin-end: 12;
    margin-top: 12;
    margin-bottom: 12;
    
    Gtk.Box {
      orientation: vertical;
      spacing: 24;
      
      Adw.PreferencesGroup {
        title: "Convert";
        header-suffix: Gtk.Box {
          orientation: horizontal;
          spacing: 6;
          
          Gtk.Button {
            valign: center;
          
            child: Adw.ButtonContent {
              icon-name: "emblem-synchronizing-symbolic";
              label: "Switch"
            };
            
            styles ["flat"]
          }
        }
        
        Adw.ComboRow {
          title: "From";
          model: Gtk.StringList {
            strings ["USD", "EUR", "CAD"]
          };
        }
        
        Adw.ComboRow {
          title: "To";
          model: Gtk.StringList {
            strings ["EUR", "USD", "CAD"]
          };
        }
        
        Adw.EntryRow {
          title: "USD";
          text: "$5.00";
        }
      }
      
      Gtk.Button {
        halign: center;
        label: "Convert"
        
        styles ["pill", "suggested-action"]
      }
      
      Gtk.Label {
        label: "€6,52";
        
        styles ["title-3"]
      }
    }
  }
}

AdwToastOverlays should generally be the first child of the window with the rest of the window content inside, so they don't make content move around.

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Hello, I got this info message on my last Flatpak update.

Do you need any help solving this issue

The current name is very generic, and the app can easily get lost among other similar ones. It would benefit from a more unique name. Some suggestions:

• Banknotes
• Inflation
• Greenback
• Pennies
• Transactions

Hello, do you think this is something possible?

instead of searching

USD > MXN 100

We could use

1 usd to mxn

I think this is more natural and more people will find it useful

The Google provider falls short in many ways, and often leaves the app hanging. Given that the data is retrieved in a pretty hacky way, maybe it should be considered removed from the app altogether? ECB seems like a trustworthy and stable alternative, and other providers could always be added.