Views Themes do not get $items

Hello,

I'm trying to use this module with views, technical working fine so far.
BUT...

first: the views template seems to be named wrong. Views is looking for 'uicarousel-view.tpl.php'
the only file provided is: uicarousel.tpl.php. renaming the file works ( it seems so at least ) but:

second: If I now try to change the templates name after the suggestions views module is giving me,
i get an error:

warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /sites/all/themes/themename/templates/uicarousel-view--nameofview.tpl.php on line 14.

( I removed the real theme name and the real viewname)
It seems to me that the $items array is in this case not initialized, may be there is something wrong with the views support, when the template is located in the template folder!?

Cause i want to use this module with different views on different places in this project it would be very helpful to know how to solve this problem for the future.

Any suggestions?