[maemo-developers] [Hildon-Extras] New widgets: about dialog, simple color dialog

[From: Thomas Perl]

Hello!

I'm happy to announce that two new widgets are now available in the
Hildon-Extras SVN repository. Hildon-Extras is a collection of
additional widgets and dialogs that are designed to work on Maemo
devices and make development of commonly-used UI elements easier by
providing a set of ready-made widgets (and dialogs) that you can use
in your applications.

The HeAboutDialog widget is an alternative to GtkAboutDialog, and uses
fonts and colors from the Fremantle Style Guide to provide an
informative about dialog for an application. In addition to the static
info, a developer can optionally provide up to three URLs that will be
accessible using buttons: Website, bug tracker and donations. You are
free to skip any of these, and the corresponding button will not be
shown.

The HeSimpleColorDialog works as a very simplified and finger-friendly
color chooser dialog that has a pre-defined palette of colors. It's
most useful for applications where the user does not need to select
"that specific shade of green", but just needs to choose colors to
differentiate between different objects (e.g. calendar categories,
TODO items, etc..).

Grab it from the project website (you'll find the link to the SVN repo there):

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/hildon-extras/

Enjoy!
Thomas