[maemo-developers] Community widgets for Fremantle

[From: Thomas Perl]

2009/9/26 Graham Cobb <g+770 at cobb.uk.net>:
> On Saturday 26 September 2009 15:00:33 Thomas Perl wrote:
>> I'd rather do without the scrolling if possible. Here's my mock-up and the
>> accompanying Python script that you can use to try it out:
>
> I like the approach.  Good demo!
>
> I am not sure about the particular colours: it seems to be missing a pure
> white, pure black and a good strong yellow (and a turquiose and a pink would
> be useful).  On the other hand some of the colours look almost identical on
> the screen (particularly 2 of the 3 greens and 2 of the 3 reds -- and who
> needs 6 orangey-browns?).

You can easily replace a column by commenting out (using "#") a row of colors
and add something like this (white, black, yellow):

    '#ffffff', '#000000', '#ffff00',

> If you are going to have a limited selection, I think they need to be strongly
> contrasting, not shades of similar colours.  My use case is to associate the
> colours with different PIM categories (used for contacts, events, tasks,
> etc.) so people want to have a lot of contrast.

Feel free to search for another color palette, e.g. see this:

http://images.google.at/images?q=color+palette

Maybe something like this would be more suitable?

http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/styleguide/images/ColorPalette.jpg

You can then edit the file colorchooser.py that I linked above and edit
the HTML hex values and then start the script using "python colorchooser.py"
to see the results.

We might also go and have some pre-defined palettes that the developer can
choose when using the dialog (say, one wants to use the Tango colors, one
wants to use more strongly constrasting colors and another one might just
want to use different shades of grey for some reason).

Thomas