[Accepted with Revisions] SDL 0186 - Template Titles

[theresalech]

Hello SDL community,

The review of "SDL 0186 - Template Titles" begins now and runs through July 17, 2018. The proposal is available here:

https://github.com/smartdevicelink/sdl_evolution/blob/master/proposals/0186-template-titles.md

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#542

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Thank you,
Theresa Lech

Program Manager - Livio
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[robinmk]

Considering the case where the weather app may use the same type of template to display the weekly view or hourly view, the SHOW RPC maybe a better candidate for adding this parameter.

[joeljfischer]

Sorry for not responding to this until now. I think that is a compromise that may have to be made, though I'm not a fan of it. It would be nice if every time we were saying "show this new screen," a semantic call was made that would present a new "blank" screen of whatever the chosen layout was, with the title, coloring, etc. that we wanted. Unfortunately, while this is how developers are used to doing it on mobile apps, the web, etc., it's not really how setDisplayLayout works. So that may have to be an abstraction we make in the high level interface as much as possible.

With all of that said, I'm okay changing this parameter to Show.

[joeygrover]

Agree with Joel's comment. If the HMI actually "reset" the template when a SetDisplayLayout request was sent would be great with the additions we have now, but since it doesn't Show does seem likely to be the better candidate.

[theresalech]

The Steering Committee voted to accept this proposal with revisions. The revisions will include adding the parameter to the Show RPC and also renaming the parameter to something more specific, such as TemplateTitle.

[theresalech]

@joeljfischer please advise when a new PR has been entered to update the proposal to reflect the agreed upon revisions. I'll then merge the PR so the proposal is up to date, and enter issues in the respective repositories for implementation. Thanks!

[theresalech]

Proposal has been updated to reflect revisions. Issues have been entered:
Android
Core
iOS
RPC