[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Thomas Perl]

2009/9/25 gary liquid <liquid at gmail.com>:
> incidentally, there is a colorwheel in standard GTK
>
> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GTK_color_chooser.png
>
> whilst the number boxes themselves are not finger friendly (they could be
> replaced with popouts of some kind)
> the dialog itself certainly fits within the dimensions.
> perhaps taking a look at how that works and whether its usable in Fremantle
> would be beneficial.

Depending on the use case, having a nice finger-friendly color palette
could be *much* better than letting the user fine-tune the colors. I think
most color-choosing tasks (e.g. in Conboy) are not about getting some
really specific shade of green, but just getting a "cute" color that happens
to be green. A nice palette with beautiful colors can help here.

I propose a dialog with finger-usable buttons that just has the colors of the
Tango Color Palette in it:

http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines

Give the users less choice and more sane defaults ;) You can always add
that "Advanced" button with a hex entry field for the nerds later on.

Thomas