Components Migration

Revision as of 09:05, 20 April 2011

Migration of Components from MeeGo.Labs.Components to MeeGo.Components

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Currently some component code versions exists in both meegolabs-ux-components and meego-ux-components. In order to avoid confusion for third party developers and to decrease the burden of maintaining two branches and keeping them in sync, we are deprecating code in meegolabs-ux-components where it is already available in meego-ux-components.

Component migration will occur in three phases:

Phase I (done April 8th)

• deprecate Media pickers (image/video/music)
• deprecate Date and Time pickers
• Contacts picker will remain in meegolabs-ux-components for the time being

Phase II (schedule to end April 22)

• all other duplicated components (see table below)
• Window and AppPage/ApplicationPage will not be migrated in this phase
• a Window2.qml is provided to test the new orientation behaviour

Since most of the meego-ux-components depend on signals from the new meego-ux-components Window.qml, some of them will have issues when being used with the meegolabs Window.qml. The ModalContextMenu is our main problem child here. We have added a Window2.qml to the meegolabs repo which is basically the meegolabs Window.qml, but with the orientation behaviour of the new meego-ux-components Window.qml. Just add the '2' behind Window to use it, no further API changes are necessary. The ModalContextmenu called in the content area will now stay on screen. Of course Window2.qml does not have the full functionality of the meego-ux-components Window.qml, so there will still be a few bugs until you switch to the meego-ux-components Window.qml. Bugs we found after a quick testing:

• the book and action menu context menus will still leave the screen/ appear in the wrong position when the orientation changes while they are visible.
• Some apps create their own status bar and tool bar:
  • the panels view has two status bars.
  • the photo apps detail page always shows its search bar.

These bugs should not be filed and will not be fixed since Window2.qml is only a preliminary solution for testing only!

ATTENTION: The old components (see list below) from meegolabs will be removed on Tuesday(April 20) morning around 8:00 pacific time!

Phase III (scheduled to end April 29)

• Window and AppPage components

Window, Book and Page

A general change in the meego-ux-components is the concept of how to use Window and AppPage in order to create a navigation path to your application. Please find the examples and the tutorial in the devel package to help you understand the concept.

Phase II Components Migration: