As there might be several users out there still using CalendarCombo, this sounds like a really good solution.
Maybe we should define some process on how to deal with widgets that are outdated in general? The process you described sounds like a good starting point. On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Emil Crumhorn <[email protected]>wrote: > Sounds good! > > Cheers, > Emil > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Wim Jongman <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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.phpfor >>>>>> 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 >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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