Yo,

I initially planned this in my mind for 1.5.0, but as 1.4.0 is getting more and more "late" (that's a volunteer project at all), so I'm opening the issue right now and I did not set a milestone, to be discussed.

IMHO, we should the following stuff :

• GUI helpers
  • Name : maybe a combination of "GUI" and "Util" => guitil ? (idk, that's not important lol)
  • Depends : none
  • Stuff to be moved :
    • util/colors.lua
    • Some custom widgets like the highlighted box (using in settings/about)
    • util/time_ago.lua (used in Date tooltip) ?
  • Interaction :
    • modname.get_color("color") actual function
    • modname.get_color({"color1", "color2"}) actual function
    • modname.insert_widget() => could returns a formspec-escaped for "custom" widgets like highlighted box.
• Settings
  • Name : simply settings, or to not be too restrictive something like settingz ?
  • Depends : GUI helpers just above
  • Stuff to be moved :
    • ui/settings.lua
    • Few components of util/settings.lua
    • Way it stores in storage.lua
  • Interaction :
    • modname.register_setting(dictionary)
    • modname.register_settings(list of dictionaries)
    • modname.get_setting(name, "setting") exactly like mail.get_setting()
    • modname.set_setting(name, "setting", value) exactly like mail.set_setting()
    • modname.reset_settings(modname)

All those dependencies of mail mod, all managed by mt-mods, and for all I assume the "unofficial" role of (co-)maintainer.