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    [header] New header component and big changes to orientation handling · 458b27fb
    Andrea Bernabei authored
    First of all, this is a big commit, I'm sorry guys...I couldn't find
    a decent way to split the big changes into many commits as they're
    all strongly related one to the other...so I decided to just push it
    into one commit instead of splitting it into non-working mini-commits.
    
    So, the main changes which this commit brings are:
    - Header component!
      It's basically a toolbar + "drawer" with
      levels of customizable heights providing speedbumps
      (yeah, I can understand this is not that self-explaining,
      refer to https://github.com/qwazix/glacier-controls-spec/blob/master/header/header.pdf
      for more info :D )
      I'm sure there are lots of things which can be improved,
      look for the "TODO" comments in the sourcecode.
      But it's generally complete and working.
      The header behaves different in portrait and landscape modes,
      as requested in the spec above.
    
    - Header dimmer:
      this is a separate component because of technical reasons,
      but it's basically the dimmer which is anchored at the bottom
      of the header, and partially covers the current page.
    
    - Added a new HeaderToolsLayout, which replaces the temporary
      ToolBarLayoutExample.
      This component currently only handles the layout of the toolbar,
      not the drawer (decision making required, here).
    
    - Added FilteringMouseArea QML component, with c++ implementation:
      this was needed to implement the header, and I'm sure it will be useful
      in the future for other purposes. It's basically a MouseArea which
      receives the events, handles them, and sends them underneath if
      it wishes to (while in MouseArea, if you accept the first event the areas
      below you won't receive it, and if you don't accept the first event,
      you'll miss all the others as well)
    
    - The toolbar/header element has been moved from Page to ApplicationWindow.
      This means there's only one Header in the app, what changes is its
      content (just like in MeeGo's Qt Components), which means we don't have
      to create a new Header everytime we push a Page on the stack.
    
    - Moved some QML properties to C++
    
    - Improved UI orientation change handling:
      the orientation locks now work correctly, plus we can both specify
      a Page orientation lock, *and* a global orientation lock, which is used
      when no lock is specified for the current page.
    
    - Updated components example Gallery:
      many modifications here and there as a consequence to the big changes,
      plus I've replaced the Toolbar with the Header in all pages,and
      put a few levels in the drawer of the main Page.
      I also set orientation locks in a few pages, to make it easier
      in the future to check that everything is working.
    
    Have fun! :)
    
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