[maemo-developers] Hildon Extras project launched

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 14:30 -0400, Andrew Olmsted wrote:
> After taking WAY too long to do anything on this project, I have 
> imported my initial color and font selectors to the Hildon Extras 
> project.  I edited the Makefile.am to include the source and header 
> files, and added the following:
> 
> - he-color-selector
> - he-color-dialog
> - he-color-button
> - he-font-selector
> - he-font-dialog
> - he-font-button

Andrew, that's really great! Thanks a lot!

> I haven't done a build yet, mostly because I was having autotool 
> difficulty.  I haven't attempted to figure out whether it is my setup, 
> or the scripts, but autogen.sh fails for me.  I will send more 
> information as I get it.

Your code just compiles fine only my initial autogen.sh is not good -
I'll fix now. 

> My next goals are to make he-color-button and he-font-button use 
> multiple labels, like he-check-button and other hildon buttons.  I also 
> want to implement a "simple" color selector, where the user can select 
> from pre-loaded color samples.  The option to use the RGB selector will 
> still be available.

I'm looking forward to the simple color selector. Hopefully I'll commit
my transparent fullscreen thing (aka HeTransparentFullscreenThing ;))
this week too.

BTW, is someone interested in writing a replacement for GtkAboutDialog?

Cheers!
Conny