Moving 3 widgets to kdelibs.

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

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Stephan Kulow wrote:

> Am Freitag, 16. September 2005 23:32 schrieb Tom Albers:
> 
>> Remarks:
>> - for both two to work, kDatePickerPopup[3] class should be copied as
>> well - the existing kdatewidget [4] and kdatetimewidget [5] are slightly
>> different and should stay around for applications needing them or
>> developers who prefer those two.
>
> I don't think we should give developers too many options. The power of a
> good API does only work if it's used. So either you see your widgets as
> superiour and then you should help with porting the applications and
> replace the kdatewidget and kdatetimewidget or I would say there is little
> point in having yet another k*date* class

For kdepim the K*date* widgets from kdelibs were insufficient, so we wrote 
these instead. They are used all over the place in kdepim (like korganizer, 
kaddressbook, kalarm etc.). So, yes, I definitely see these as superior.

On the other hand, they also have their problems, like accessibility, or that 
the KLocale methods are far from perfect in interpreting string input as 
date / time with several formats.

Reinhold


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 * Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, TU Wien, http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/
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