[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Andrew Olmsted]

Hi,

I have started work on a pannable-font-selector and pannable-color-selector
(for lack of better names at this point) with the help and input of some of
the folks at #maemo.  I want to have a dialog and button for each of them as
well as you suggest, to make it as easy as possible for the user.

Both widgets are in their early stages, but suggestions are certainly
welcome.  I wasn't sure whether using "hildon" in the name of a non-official
widget would be okay.  Is there a precedent for that?

I'm not sure what the best way to collaborate would be.  Thus far IRC has
been good, but I don't want to exclude anyone.  Maybe using this mailing
list and IRC in tandem is the best idea.

If you want to see what I have so far, the font selector can be seen here:
http://andrew.olmsted.ca/maemo/screens/snapshot39.png
What I have for colour selector:
http://andrew.olmsted.ca/maemo/screens/snapshot40.png

Thanks,
Andrew

2009/9/24 Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de>

> Hi!
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> * HildonExtrasColorChooserDialog:
> A dialog that displays a HildonExtrasColorChooser.
>
> * 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.
>
> * HildonExtrasFontSelectionDialog:
> A dialog that lets the user select font face and size. Maybe also font
> style (bold, italic, ...), color and other things.
>
> * 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.
>
>
> So who is interested? Who wants to provide code or mockups? Ideas?
> Critics? Flames? Let the ideas roll :)
>
> Cheers!
> Conny
>
>
>
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