date DND

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sat Jul 19 20:54:36 BST 2003


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I couldn't find any date dragging in KDE, will ask around just to be sure.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Saturday 19 July 2003 21:12, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently working on adding dnd to the GtkCalendar widget (see
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117297). I've looked around
> for prior art, but couldn't find any, therefore I invented the following
> format:
>
> type: application/x-date
> format: 16
> data[0]: 1-based day number (ie between 1 and 31)
> data[1]: 0-based month number (ie between 0 and 11)
> data[2]: year
>
> The seemingly strange mixture of 1-based and 0-based numbering has been
> inherited from GtkCalendar which has inerited it from time_t. The format
> is 16 to give enough room for the year.
>
> What I'd like to ask this list is:
>
> 1) Are there existing data formats for transferring dates via X
> properties ? If yes, should we agree on an existing one, rather than
> inventing a new one...
>
> 2) Is the proposed format good enough, or should we optionally include
> time information ?
>
> Matthias
>
> PS There seems to be some mailing list configuration issue, as I
> currently can't reach this list as xdg-list at freedesktop.org, only as
> xdg-list at redhat.com.
>
>
>
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