Re: GnomeDateEdit replacement

[Sebastian Rittau <rittau math TU-Berlin DE>]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 04:49:57PM -0400, Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> I've been planning a rewrite of GnomeDateEdit for a while.  I've been
> driven crazy by it's limitations.  The big feature I want is the ability
> to have 'unknown' fields.  For example, I'd like to be able to just
> specify 'January, 1932, or even just '1488'.  

So, how would you do this API-wise?

> I don't know what Owen thinks about accepting this for inclusion in
> GTK+, but I'd love to see it.  Additionally, there's a new Combo widget
> slated for landing in libegg.  We may want to look into using that as a
> basis for writing it.

I obviously have to take a close look at libegg at some point.

 - Sebastian