Pacinfo - a package information utility for pacman

Maybe some of you have already read this on the Arch Linux planet. I have released pacinfo 0.1, it's a package information utility for pacman with the following features:
* list all installed packages
* screenshot support (fetching from http://screenshots.debian.net/ like the Ubuntu Software Center)
* large screenshot if you click on the thumbnail
* shows installed files of a package
* shows some details of the package
* full-text search in the whole package name
More features are planned. You can find the project at Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/pacinfo/ There is also a screencast about it functionality.
I have add it to the AUR repo: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46065
It's written in Mono and GTK#.
This thread should be used as a discussion thread about features and bugs.
NOTE: This is my personal project and has nothing to do with my work at Arch Linux, it's not an official Arch Linux project!

Looks very cool! However, I do get an error when I try to build it from AUR. I'm using the i686 vesion of Arch, have all dependencies, and everything is up to date. Not sure if this will be info-overkill, but I'm just trying to help:
Unhandled Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for Mono.CSharp.Location ---> System.ExecutionEngineException: SIGILL
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Int32].Init (Int32 capacity, IEqualityComparer`1 hcp) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2[System.String,System.Int32]..ctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.CSharp.Location.Reset () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
at Mono.CSharp.Location..cctor () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at Mono.CSharp.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
make[1]: *** [bin/Release/pacinfo.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/yaourt-tmp-beelzebud/aur-pacinfo/src/pacinfo-0.1/pacinfo'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
Aborting...

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