[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Piñeiro]

From: Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de>

> > 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.

Ok

> > 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 :)

Cool.

> > > * 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

Ok, as far as I see is similar to the proposal I made (see later).

> > 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?!

Yeah, probably this could be good to just select the predefined
colors, but not to select *any* color.

> > 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 :)

Yes, and in fact, we can modify the granularity of each basic color
column, like HildonTimeSelector does with the minutes (see property
minutes-step).

> > 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

Ok, it seems that this library will finally be created, I suppose that
the next to be discussed is the name, Hexy was just quick suggestion ;)

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