Re: GnomeDateEdit emits no signal on editing entry

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 1 March 2014 21:31, John Coppens <john jcoppens com> wrote:

> Hi Bernhard, Emmanuelle,

it's Emmanuele.

> I did not submit a bug report because I thought I was doing something wrong.
> I couldn't really imagine this could really be an issue, given, like
> Emmanuelle said, it is a very old widget, and the fact that this really
> seems to be a basic functionality.

it apparently isn't, but...

> It would be a pain if GnomeDateEdit would be deprecated without a new,
> equivalent widget in gtk. I use it fairly frequently, and I've seen it
> used many times.

... GnomeDateEdit has been deprecated for the best part of the past 5
years, and the entire libgnomeui library has been deprecated long
before GTK+ 3.0 was even released.

we have moved many widgets from libgnomeui to GTK+ itself, but the
DateEdit widget has never been deemed useful, or even used enough to
warrant its inclusion in the toolkit. to be fair, I think every
application exposing a date uses its own widget, and not two date
selection widgets look alike. I would not recommend anybody to copy
the approach or API used by the GnomeDateEdit widget either — they are
both quite frankly terrible. we have better date/time structures in
GLib, and better base widgets in GTK+, these days, so it should really
not be an issue.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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