From: Cornelius Hald <h...@icandy.de> > There are some important widgets which are deprecated without a > replacement in Fremantle. Those widgets are still available, but they > are not fully finger-friendly or don't look good.
As far as I remember, we have a conversation with you about the color selector and picker. But I dont find the exact place :P As far as I remember, the conclusion was that that widgets are interesting, on hildon itself, but nobody has time to do that at that time, due time restraints and priorities. > Developers are expected to implement those widgets by them selfs which > could lead us to a situation where we have lots of duplicated work and > inconsistent behavior between different applications. > > I propose to create a garage project, let's say 'hildon-extras' with the > goal of creating a library containing missing widgets where more than > one person is interested in. Well, I suppose that you are thinking in something like libsexy [1], a "more-flexible" library to put shared effort. Anyway, as I said, probably all this widgets can have a place inside hildon. Would you like that in the future this widgets would be moved to Hildon or you prefer a differen approach? > Personally I would like to see the following widgets: > > * HildonExtrasColorButton: > A button that looks like a HildonCheckButton, but instead of the check > mark it displays the selected color. When clicking this button a > HildonExtrasColorChooserDialog is opened. So in this case, at least in the behaviour, is more similar to the HildonTimeButton or HildonDateButton, but showing a "square" with the color, instead of the value string. Right? > * HildonExtrasColorChooserDialog: > A dialog that displays a HildonExtrasColorChooser. In hildon was not required to created a specific dialog for the HildonDateButton or the HildonTimeButton. Both uses the current HildonPickerDialog. Why do you think that a specific dialog is required? What features do you think that misses HildonPickerDialog? BTW, as I still think that a future convergence would be a good idea, and as a HildonColorChooserDialog exists yet (the deprecated one), I would use another name, like HildonExtrasColorPickerDialog (just a suggestion). > * HildonExtrasColorChooser: > A widget that lets the user select a color by only using fingers. I'm > not yet sure how it should look like, but personally I would like > something with three color wheels or touch selectors for red, green and > blue. Then next to it a field shows the composed color of those three > 'color wheels'. Plus an area where you have, for example, the last 8 > used colors. Hmmm, as far as I see this is just the current (and deprecated) HildonColorChooser. What would be the difference? Bigger buttons (to be more friendly)? Could you make a mockup? AFAIR, when we were talking about that, me (or Claudio) suggested a friendly-finger touch-selector, with a limited amount of colors predefined. Other option could be a three column (red+green+blue) touch-selector, that allows you to select the mixture you want. (This touch-selector approach could be called HildonExtrasColorSelector, for example) > * HildonExtrasFontSelectionDialog: > A dialog that lets the user select font face and size. Maybe also font > style (bold, italic, ...), color and other things. As I said before, why it is required a specific Dialog? So I would bet for a HildonExtrasFontButton and a HildonExtrasFontSelector. So the button just open a HildonPickerDialog, and put inside a HildonFontSelector, like the current HildonDateButton-HildonDateSelector. > * HildonExtrasCheckButton: > A button with two labels like a normal HildonButton, but with a check > mark on the left like a HildonCheckButton. So basically a > HildonCheckButton with two labels. (I'll do that if no one minds). > There are probably more widgets, so feel free to write about your ideas > and how you think that some widgets should look and behave. Also of > course, those names and ideas are not fixed - nothing is fixed, it's > just a very early proposal. I just felt, like we should discuss this > here, visible for everyone because there have been some discussion about > that issue already in other places. Well, as I said, this is a good idea if you think in something like libsexy, in order to have ASAP a place to put this widgets, and the future plan is integrate this widgets or features on Hildon. As we talked before, I agree that give Fremantle-like equivalent widgets to the Hildon 1.0 deprecated widgets is a good idea, and a good idea to put that on Hildon. BTW: the problem that I found to "hildon-extras" name is that is too long ;) HildonExtrasFontSelector seems too long for me. I would prefer a name for the library, probably with a "H" to infer that is Hildon related (like HAIL-Hildon Accessibility Implementation Library), what about Hexy? (Hildon Sexy), so HexyColorButton and so on. But this is just a question of taste. > So who is interested? Who wants to provide code or mockups? Ideas? > Critics? Flames? Let the ideas roll :) Just my two cents. > Cheers! > Conny BR [1] http://www.chipx86.com/w/index.php/Libsexy === API (apinhe...@igalia.com) _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
