How about this: I will move it to incubation now. I will make a few announcement on the list and in the newsgroup. If there are no objections within say, three months, we remove it completely, otherwise: it stays in incubation as an unmanaged widget and we will remove it from the examples view and from the website.
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Emil Crumhorn <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Dirk, > > As the developer of CalendarCombo, I agree. > > I was looking at the DateTime widget and apart from look and feel the > CalendarCombo has been phased out. I'm happy about that because over the > years it developed issues that I could no longer fix (X didn't work on > Linux, Y didn't work on Mac, etc). I've tried plenty of times to work > around things but in the end it's never worked as some API just doesn't do > what I want. > > Considering it's lived for more than 10 years I'd say it's had a very good > run! > > Wim, maybe we should nuke it altogether? I think people should try to go > for working cross-platform widgets than those that only work on Windows > (nowadays). What do you think? > > Regards, > Emil > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Dirk Fauth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> IMHO the CalendarCombo should be put to the Incubation project to find >> its place to rest in peace. Compared to org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime, >> there seems to be no more additional value by using CalendarCombo. >> >> I might be wrong, but the value that was added by CalendarCombo in the >> past doesn't exist anymore. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong. >> >> Greez, >> Dirk >> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Wim Jongman <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hi Donald, >>> >>> Thanks for the update. >>> >>> CalendarCombo is in the release project, it is created by Emil and you >>> and Emil were looking after it [1]. >>> >>> I also understand that Emil was not too happy about CalendarCombo, >>> exactly for the reasons you mention now. >>> >>> Should we demote CalendarCombo and put it in the Incubation project? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Wim >>> >>> [1] http://wiki.eclipse.org/Nebula/restructure#Proposed_widgets >>> >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Dunne, Donald G < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> XViewer and it’s tests were using the Nebuala CalendarCombo which does >>>> not work on GTK and thus Linux. See note at the bottom of >>>> http://eclipse.org/nebula/widgets/calendarcombo/calendarcombo.php for >>>> more information.**** >>>> >>>> >>>> **** >>>> >>>> Planning on switching to the org.eclipse.swt.widgets.DateTime which >>>> supports everything but a clear button, which XViewer can implement itself. >>>> **** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Bugzilla created at: >>>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=396228**** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> ** ** >>>> >>>> Don**** >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> nebula-dev mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> nebula-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> nebula-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > nebula-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/nebula-dev > >
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