[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Cornelius Hald]

On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 16:13 +0200, Piñeiro wrote:

> > 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?

Exactly.

> > * 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?

I think a HildonPickerDialog is probably fine. The distinction between
the widgets and the dialogs was only made to show that it would be good
to have both. A widget and a easy way of showing this widget in a
dialog. How this is solved in details is something for the future. Just
see this as some vague idea.

> 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).

Convergence would surely rock :)

> > * 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?

No, the concept is quite different, but it's difficult to explain. So,
yes, here is a mockup. But warning: It's ugly! I just spend 5 minutes on
it, but it should show the concept:
http://zwong.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/color.png

> AFAIR, when we were talking about that, me (or Claudio) suggested a
> friendly-finger touch-selector, with a limited amount of colors
> predefined.

Possible, but maybe to limited?!

> Other option could be a three column (red+green+blue) touch-selector,
> that allows you to select the mixture you want.

I think that's more or less how my mockup works :)

> 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.

Exactly :)

> 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.

Something short then "HildonExtras" would be nice. 'Hexy' would be fine
for me.

Thanks for your input and keep on discussing :)
Conny