[kde-guidelines] Date/Time picker (Was: Grunt work)

[Thomas Pfeiffer]

On Thursday 04 July 2013 15:55:58 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> > Does that distinction make sense to you?
> 
> Kind of, but it still sounds a bit like find a reason for something which
> did not have any reason to exist initially :)
> 
> Did I mention I deliberately decided not to include yet-another date-time
> widget provided by kdelibs because it does not seem to be used (but provide
> interesting features like picking whether you want a Gregorian or a Julian
> calendar). I think we have too many date/time classes.

> Maybe we could instead say the K*Widget classes are deprecated and suggest
> developers should use the K*ComboBox classes instead? From a code point of
> view, we can't remove classes from kdelibs4 but we can mark classes as
> deprecated. This will trigger warnings next time developer rebuilds his
> application.

Seems like we all agree here (see also my previous mail in this thread).
Let's deprecate them and discourage their use in the HIG, then!

> If we go this way it would make sense IMO to create a KDateTimeComboBox
> which would combine both K*ComboBox. What do you think?

Makes sense!