[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Hi Andrew,

> 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.

that's great news :)

> 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 don't think that "Hildon" is a trademark, but probably API and Claudio
can comment on this. For now I think the name is not that important.
Renaming is still possible later.

> 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.

Well, personally I'm never on IRC. So for me mailing list would be best.

> 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

I already like it, as it is definitely finger-friendly which is IMO very
important. Maybe it would be possible to render the font names already
with the actual font? I think that would look nice and gives automatic
preview.

> What I have for colour selector:
> http://andrew.olmsted.ca/maemo/screens/snapshot40.png

I like this one too. Some suggestions:

- If the sliders widgets would be colored red, grenn and blue, there
would be no need for the labels anymore. Unfortunately I think it's
impossible :(

- A small number of favorite colors would be nice too.


Thanks a lot for sharing these :)
Conny