The calendar widget is very complicated, so reimplementation would not be a good idea. However, I don't want to see developers linking against the gnome libraries because they think it's cool, unless they provide a no gnome version. I believe there's a Qt version in the works too. If it's a bunch of buttons, scrollbars, etc. I just believe that you should provide options, within reason.
Options are the point of Linux.
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