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

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

How do I use this stuff from Hildon Extras?

Just grab the code and copy it into mine ?

Should we (you) make a lib and package it ?

Aniello

On 14 February 2010 21:09, Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> thanks a lot for this addition. I'm still too busy with other stuff and
> can't do anything useful right now. However if everything goes as
> planned, I might have some free time in March.
>
> I'm planning to integrate all the hildon-extras goodies into Conboy.
> Then I could push towards a release of hildon-extras. What do you (all
> of you) think. I mean we had this discussion some time ago, but now a
> couple of projects are actively using hildon-extras code. How does it
> work for you? Is is okay to do copy & paste, or would a release be
> helpful?
>
> Other thoughts about the future of hildon-extras? Missing widgets? Bugs?
> Stuff?
>
> Cheers!
> Conny
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 00:40 +0100, Thomas Perl wrote:
>> 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
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