[maemo-developers] HildonCalendar

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Jan 16, 2008 1:04 PM, pancake <pancake at youterm.com> wrote:
> > It sounds like the people who wrote HildonCalendar should work on a new
> > calendar widget to go in upstream GTK+.
>
> Do you really think a calendar widget fits with GTK?
>
> IMHO it's a far complex widget and have to live out of the core lib.

Perhaps; but if Gtk has a calendar widget, an application shouldn't
have to condition calls to it to get a HildonCalendar widget on
certain platforms SOLELY to get a different implementation. If the
internals are different but the API remains the same it should be
transparent to the developer.

I can understand Nokia not wanting to maintain a fork of Gtk, but
these things should be implemented in a way which allows them to be
pushed upstream wherever possible. Every little bit of work that the
maemo team save here is magnified into lots more work for third party
developers.

Cheers,

Andrew


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