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["XiaoGuo, Liu" <xiaoguo.liu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Could you please let me know when we can get the tool? it is a very
useful tool!

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Title:
  Adding function in unity scope tool to fine tune the scope template

Status in One Hundred Papercuts:
  New
Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Currently, unity scope tool is a good unity for developing scopes on
  desktop. I am thinking to add one more function to make it more useful
  to the developers. A graphic tool can be helpful to the design "what
  you see is what you get".

  Currently, a developer can tweak the template definition:

  const static string WEATHER_TEMPLATE =
          R"(
  {
          "schema-version": 1,
          "template": {
          "category-layout": "grid",
          "card-layout": "horizontal",
          "card-size": "small"
          },
          "components": {
          "title": "title",
          "art" : {
          "field": "art"
          },
          "subtitle": "subtitle"
          }
          }
          )";

  If a developer does not know the "category-layout" options for "grid"
  or "carousel"  etc, it would be difficult for them to make the
  adjustment. The developer has to find some documents for it.  It would
  be good to have a graphic tool to help to design the template like the
  "design" for QML apps, or some similar tool in the android eclipse to
  help to fine tune the LIST/GRID templates . Microsoft Windows phone
  also has some similar designs like this.

  Ideally, the "category-layout" can have a dropbox to select the
  available layouts ("grid", "carousel", "vertical-journal" etc), "card-
  layout" has options for "horizontal " or what options there. Some
  dummy data can be filled to show how the scope looks like. Even
  further, some of the pre-designed good looking templates are already
  there for NEWS, MUSIC, VIDEO, WEATHER etc so developer can straightly
  start to make use of the well-designed templates there. They may even
  drag and drop/move to fine-tune the positions of the elements in the
  graphic view.

  In this case, a developer can easily customize the look and feel of
  the scopes of their development very quickly.

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