Hi Andrew, very good point. I totally agree. Luckily we're doing better in other areas. For example the Calendar component is already a shared one and there are currently efforts ongoing for simple date and time pickers. So we are working towards it.
This particular case is a little more tricky. While the clock app can read the local list of all timezones, the weather app needs to fetch a remote list which differs depending on which weather service provider you use. So not really sure right now if it would indeed make sense to share code. 100% agreement on sharing the design tho. Br, Michael On Wednesday 04 September 2013 11:18:59 Andrew Starr-Bochicchio wrote: > The past couple days, I've been making my first forays into the core > apps projects and the QML world more generally. One thing I noticed > was that there are some core apps that have pieces doing the same > thing in different ways. I brought this up on IRC, and dpm suggested I > bring it to the list. > > For example, the clock and weather apps both have location selection > components. Please see the attached picture. On the left is the is the > clock app and on the right is the weather app. Two different > implementations, with two different visual styles, with two different > behaviors. The clock searches while you type while the weather app > does not. > > It seems like a lot of duplication of effort, and it leads to an > inconsistent feel. Ideally, I guess, we should be building some > reusable components, but if nothing else it would be good to share the > code and design. > > Thanks, > > -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio > > Ubuntu Developer <https://launchpad.net/~andrewsomething> > Debian Developer <http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=asb> > PGP/GPG Key ID: D53FDCB1 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
