Improving SFOS apps design and helping with design

[ichthyosaurus]

@Mister_Magister

Well yeah… i’ve been thinking about making microtube/picoplayer’s videoplayer separate component but that’s additional work.

It would be great if you could do this (if you have the time)! I wanted to include a proper music/video player in File Browser but didn’t have the time so far. Maybe I could use your component :).

@Mister_Magister

And people are already cutting their time spent on working on app by not making it pretty and just throwing stuff together so…

That’s sad and true. Though if there were beautiful components available, even hurried apps might become a bit prettier ;).

@Mister_Magister

Also tab layout could use making into separate component

Maybe this could be useful for someone: sf-docked-tab-bar (cf. my other post)

@AndyWuest

The about page could be easily standardized, so you only pass the app specific values to it and everything else would be handled by the “standard” component.

Actually, I created such a component: GitHub - ichthyosaurus/sf-about-page: A simple 'About' page with license and contributors information for Sailfish apps. Feel free to use it, it’s GPL.

@AndyWuest

Same applies to the charting component i am using for displaying the charts - stole it from another project and patched to be more flexible - it would make more sense to have such a centralized maintained component that everybody could use…

I did the same for my weather app but didn’t create a separate component; I should do that… It would be very nice if you could make yours stand-alone and available for others.

I could create an organization on Github for collecting repos with beautiful components from the community. What do you think? (Would it help anyone?)