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

[From: Cornelius Hald]

Yea, currently you just copy whatever you need into your own project. A 
lib would be possible and in fact there are already build scripts which 
are doing exactly that.

The question is, whether or not we want that. If we release a library, 
we will have to deal with API compatibility in successive versions, etc.


Aniello Del Sorbo wrote:
> 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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