[maemo-developers] HildonCalendar

[From: pancake]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:01:28PM +0000, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 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.

That is. a separated library.